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Originally Posted by jesjimher
Mmm, I don't understand all this talk about closed formats. Wasn't it said that the Sony Reader would read PDF files?
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That depends on what you term "readable".
There seems to be some confusion as to whether or not the Sony Reader will read PDF natively or whether you have to go through a conversion process to turn the PDF into something that the reader can use.
The conversion process is definately more work than just putting the PDF on the device. The process will probably be proprietary - which means those of us who have open OSs will be left out and if Sony decides to drop support, you are out in the cold.
Plus, many PDFs of (legal) eBooks are protected in some way. So the conversion process would also prohibit you from reading many PDFs that you would want to read on the device.