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meremark · 01-01-2011, 10:49 PM

I'm new to the whole ebook thing. I have Sony PRS-650 and after some problems with the software Sony supplied (nicely fixed by the helpful users of this forum) I decided I should have a look at Calibre given the rap it's been given. I'm using mac OSX 10.6. I have downloaded it and moved ebooks from where I found them in MY documents folder but every time i try to view one I either get an error message like this...

UnicodeDecodeError:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x94 in position 53: invalid start byte

or a message saying that this ebook is protected by DRM. These were all either legit free books from google or ones I paid for.
Any ideas?

01-01-2011, 10:49 PM	#1
meremark Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: NSW, Australia Device: Sony Reader PRS-650	Problems with first time Calibre user I'm new to the whole ebook thing. I have Sony PRS-650 and after some problems with the software Sony supplied (nicely fixed by the helpful users of this forum) I decided I should have a look at Calibre given the rap it's been given. I'm using mac OSX 10.6. I have downloaded it and moved ebooks from where I found them in MY documents folder but every time i try to view one I either get an error message like this... UnicodeDecodeError:'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x94 in position 53: invalid start byte or a message saying that this ebook is protected by DRM. These were all either legit free books from google or ones I paid for. Any ideas?