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Originally Posted by urseus
Thanks for your reply.
What is the difference between me using that "Project (something)" downloads and the sony books?
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"Project Gutenberg" is working on producing electronic copies of out-of-copyright works. They have 10,000+ books done (so far) and more appearing daily. Because of the "out-of-copyright" requirement, most of this content predates 1923 (I may not have the date right, but somewhere in the 1920s). Project Gutenberg (also known as PG) is the source of most of the downloads that you can find here at Mobileread. The ones here have generally been more carefully formatted than the "classics" at Sony (most of which also come from PG!). Otherwise, the difference is that you have to download PG books with your browser, and then load them onto the Reader either through Sony's library software, through libprs500 (if that's what you use), via a memory card, or (if you have a prs505) directly onto the reader via USB. The Sony "classic" books, by comparison, must be purchased from Sony, managed through the Sony library software, and are DRM locked to your reader (the ones from PG and Mobileread are DRM-free).
Xenophon