Thread: PRS-500 Did I buy a lemon?
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Old 03-07-2011, 07:42 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by affa44 View Post
Hi guys,
thanks for the comments - unfortunately I tried to convert a DRM book - no luck - definitely a lemon! I must check the Australian e-bay seller's description - might get my money back - yea, I'm an optimist!
There are pluggins for Calibre that will seamlessly fix that little problem you had in converting DRM books. They were developed by third parties and to avoid legal hassles involving the removal of DRM, the author of Calibre can't include them in the main release or offer any support.

It's not likely, but on the off chance you have problems getting the Calibre DRM pluggins to work, a guy going by the moniker 'Apprentice Alf' has also created several stand alone tools that will help straiten out your DRM issues, so you can freely convert your files.

Calibre will then let you archive BOTH the EPUB and LRF versions, which is really cool since that will allow you to also keep a copy of the original EPUB so you will have that available if you later upgrade to another reader which supports this newer format.

I'm pretty sure that if you Google around a little, and get your Calibre configuration tweaked so that you can buy and convert books seamlessly, you will have a much higher opinion of your Sony.

And since you were also pleased with some of the free offerings on Mobileread, here is another source for really great free ebooks.

EDIT: Along with Mobileread you might also want to check out the public domain section of www.feedbook.com


At feedbooks, I don't see LRF but you can grab the EPUB formatted versions, which should all convert cleanly and quickly to LRF in Calibre


Also, if you get tired of dealing with EPUB -> LRF conversions, Sony says that the version 2.0.00.09180. firmware update for your reader will support EPUB, but I don't see it available for download from Sony anywhere on their site.

Sony may want to get the reader back and charge you for doing the update. If you don't want to put up with that, you may want to see if the hacked firmware available for your reader here on Mobileread includes any links to copies of the original Sony version 2.0.00.09180. The folks who are using hacked firmware nearly always copy the original firmware when hacking the readers firmware so that the reader can be restored in case of trouble.
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