[cdenes]

When I first tried to use the Reader I realized it is only set up to work with Windows. I was happy to learn about calibre (and will gladly contribute if I get it to work for me) BUT I have not been able to get the books I want to open.

Let me start by saying that I originally intended to mostly use digital ebook downloads from my library collection, rather than to buy books. These books are "borrowed" for only 14 days so there must be some kind of encoding on them that restricts their use. The library offers different formats for different ebooks but the most common one seems to be Adobe PDF and that is what I have been trying to use tonight.

I downloaded a book, opened it in Adobe Digital Editions (so that it would complete the download process) and now I want to transfer it to my Reader. If I open it in Calibre and "send to device" I get an error message when I try to read it that the content is restricted. If I open it in Calibre and try to convert I get the error message that it is DRM content. The library web site claims that I should be able to transfer it to my Reader directly using Adobe Digital Editions but when I read Adobe's help section they say I have to install the Sony Reader software first which means.... it is only for Windows users.

Am I going to be able to get this to work? Or do I have to send back my Reader?

thank you!