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NatCh · 11-26-2007, 01:03 PM

Welcome to MobileRead, Mirtika!

Sony has been steadily adding books over the last year, they launched the store with ~10k titles and they now have ~24k, so that's a pretty good increase, especially since they seem to have lost some titles somewhere. I agree that it's not nearly enough titles, but they are working on it. I also think that the Kindle Effect will start to increase the number of available texts. One thing to keep in mind though, is that not all of the 80k+ titles that Kindle claims are actual books, many of them are blogs and newspapers and such. I don't know if anyone's tried to get a "book only" count. But anyway, as more become available, they become more widely available.

The price thing is something we all grouse about. Apparently there are some costs somewhere that we can't pin down, but there again the Kindle Effect has lowered prices in pretty much all e-book shops. The publishers have pretty firm control as to what the books cost, but Amazon seems to have the muscle to push them down a bit.

You might want to look at FictionWise as well, they've recently started selling their "multi-format" books in the LRF format which the Sony Readers use. They're still in the process of converting, but they already have a respectable chunk of them available.

As for removing books from your Reader there are a couple of things that may help you there. The first is that you can delete them from the Reader without deleting them from the library by selecting the "Reader" entry in the e-Library software and deleting from there. They'll stay in your library unless you delete them from the Library part of the e-Library software.

The second thing is that you can take those files and move them around on your computer totally independent of the e-Library software, so you don't have to keep them in it if you'd rather not. You can even rename the files to something meaningful rather than the gibberish they download as -- renaming them won't affect the way they work, but you will have to re-import them to the e-Library software so that it recognizes the new names.

That will hopefully get you started, if not, pop on over to the Sony Reader sub-forum and ask away. There are lots of folks who know lots about the things and we can probably help you with most of your questions.

11-26-2007, 01:03 PM	#3
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Welcome to MobileRead, Mirtika! Sony has been steadily adding books over the last year, they launched the store with ~10k titles and they now have ~24k, so that's a pretty good increase, especially since they seem to have lost some titles somewhere. I agree that it's not nearly enough titles, but they are working on it. I also think that the Kindle Effect will start to increase the number of available texts. One thing to keep in mind though, is that not all of the 80k+ titles that Kindle claims are actual books, many of them are blogs and newspapers and such. I don't know if anyone's tried to get a "book only" count. But anyway, as more become available, they become more widely available. The price thing is something we all grouse about. Apparently there are some costs somewhere that we can't pin down, but there again the Kindle Effect has lowered prices in pretty much all e-book shops. The publishers have pretty firm control as to what the books cost, but Amazon seems to have the muscle to push them down a bit. You might want to look at FictionWise as well, they've recently started selling their "multi-format" books in the LRF format which the Sony Readers use. They're still in the process of converting, but they already have a respectable chunk of them available. As for removing books from your Reader there are a couple of things that may help you there. The first is that you can delete them from the Reader without deleting them from the library by selecting the "Reader" entry in the e-Library software and deleting from there. They'll stay in your library unless you delete them from the Library part of the e-Library software. The second thing is that you can take those files and move them around on your computer totally independent of the e-Library software, so you don't have to keep them in it if you'd rather not. You can even rename the files to something meaningful rather than the gibberish they download as -- renaming them won't affect the way they work, but you will have to re-import them to the e-Library software so that it recognizes the new names. That will hopefully get you started, if not, pop on over to the Sony Reader sub-forum and ask away. There are lots of folks who know lots about the things and we can probably help you with most of your questions.