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Xenophon · 02-07-2008, 09:23 PM

You can buy books for the Sony 505 at Fictionwise ('multiformat' books only), at Baen (either use the .rtf versions, or download html or .lit and use libprs500 to convert to Sony's format), and a few other places. Also, you can download a couple of thousand public domain books right here at MobileRead.

Anything from Project Gutenberg will easily convert to Sony's format.

Anything you can purchase in .lit format (also known as Microsoft Reader format) can be converted to Sony's format. If the book is DRM-free you can just convert it with libprs500. If the book has DRM, you'll need a PC with Microsoft Reader in order to get the book set up with your key. Then you use the convert-lit program along with your key to produce a non-DRM version (can't tell you how, as that would violate the US's &^%&^$&^% DMCA law, and I'm here in the US... but a quick google search should find the information). Once you have the non-DRM version, use libprs500 to convert.

You may notice a common theme here -- you want to be using libprs500 to manage and convert your eBooks into Sony's lrf format.

Xenophon

P.S. Fictionwise is www.fictionwise.com. Baen books is a publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and may be the only mainstream publisher that 'gets it' about eBooks. Their web site is www.baen.com (for the publisher); www.webscriptions.net for the eBook store. Or go visit http://www.baen.com/library/ to see the Baen Free Library, from which you can download any or all of about 100 complete novels, free of charge, free of DRM. These are real published stuff, much of which is still available in dead-tree-format in bookstores.

02-07-2008, 09:23 PM	#2
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	You can buy books for the Sony 505 at Fictionwise ('multiformat' books only), at Baen (either use the .rtf versions, or download html or .lit and use libprs500 to convert to Sony's format), and a few other places. Also, you can download a couple of thousand public domain books right here at MobileRead. Anything from Project Gutenberg will easily convert to Sony's format. Anything you can purchase in .lit format (also known as Microsoft Reader format) can be converted to Sony's format. If the book is DRM-free you can just convert it with libprs500. If the book has DRM, you'll need a PC with Microsoft Reader in order to get the book set up with your key. Then you use the convert-lit program along with your key to produce a non-DRM version (can't tell you how, as that would violate the US's &^%&^$&^% DMCA law, and I'm here in the US... but a quick google search should find the information). Once you have the non-DRM version, use libprs500 to convert. You may notice a common theme here -- you want to be using libprs500 to manage and convert your eBooks into Sony's lrf format. Xenophon P.S. Fictionwise is www.fictionwise.com. Baen books is a publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy, and may be the only mainstream publisher that 'gets it' about eBooks. Their web site is www.baen.com (for the publisher); www.webscriptions.net for the eBook store. Or go visit http://www.baen.com/library/ to see the Baen Free Library, from which you can download any or all of about 100 complete novels, free of charge, free of DRM. These are real published stuff, much of which is still available in dead-tree-format in bookstores.