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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And the first question is really .. "I've downloaded a lot of illegal ebooks online and they are in PDF/RTF/TXT and how do I make my illegal ebooks look good on my Sony Reader?"
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That's a load of crap. I had alot of "e-books" that are PDF's. These are PDF's that I bought online, or PDF versions of published books. For me they were mostly programming/reference type books. I really planned to be able to access these books on my Sony reader... prior to buying it since it "claimed" to support it.
Of course, I found different once I got the thing and tried it. Oh sure, my reader would display the PDF, but it wasn't readable.
I did keep the Sony and use it to read fiction books and still much prefer it to paper. However, I do agree the PDF "support" is really a joke. (Yes, I know there are a bunch of tools/methods to read PDFs.)
Sony other big problem is the content. There is really nothing available on the connect store unless you want to read mostly best sellers. They really need to support Mobipocket and MS Litreader DRM formats.
Of course, the ultimate would be if there were some standard eBook format similar to .MP3 for music that all readers could support and publisers would make DRM free... even with watermarking would be fine with me.
Once again to your post...
I DON'T STEAL BOOKS!!! I just want to be able to read/buy what I want to read.
You sound like Steve Balmer (I think it was) that claimed that all iPod owners were music theifs... the RIAA thinks the same thing. I have an iPod and don't even have any music on it, just freely available Podcasts and audio books that I have ripped from CD's that I have bought!
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