[TSquared]

I just got a PRS-650, and have been happily loading free Google e-books on it, but the primary reason I got the reader was to use it with library books. Trouble is, I use Ubuntu and I'm having no luck getting this to work.

I successfully installed Adobe Digital Editions on Wine, and successfully checked out a book from my library, which I can read in ADE. (thank you to those who gave clear directions on how to do this on this forum)

My computer recognizes the Sony as a USB mass storage device, and Calibre recognizes it and will transfer stuff to it.

ADE on Wine never recognized/detected my reader so I tried some other steps.

I installed the Sony Reader software on my Mac laptop at work, as well as ADE, signed up for both an Adobe account and a Reader account, authorized the reader with the Sony Reader store, but failed to get ADE to recognize the device.

I booted an old laptop at home to Windows XP, installed the Sony Reader software and ADE, and got ADE there to recognize my reader (though it never asked me to authorize it - do I need to do something to force it to?).

I then brought my reader back to my Linux machine, but ADE still stubbornly refuses to detect it.

I've tried a few times to just copy the epub file from my computer's "My Digital Editions" folder to the reader's "My Digital Editions" folder, but when I try to read it, it says it's protected. I've also tried using Calibre to load the epub onto the device, and got the same result.

I'm at my wit's end now, because booting the old laptop to Windows every time I want to manage DRM books is a very non-ideal way to handle things. Other people on this forum seem to have gotten their readers to work with ADE on Linux. Is there something else I need to do to make this work? I love the reader but if I can't get this to work, I may need to find an alternative.