MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Sony Partners With Google To Bring More Than 500,000 Books To The Reader

carld · 03-19-2009, 01:52 AM

Just for grins I installed Sony's ebook software (since the newest version supports Vista 64) and gave the free book library a try. I used Calibre to convert an epub to mobi and sent it off to my Kindle, and it displayed well enough.

As far as I can tell these books are already available through google books. So, the content is nothing new, but being able to get them more conveniently definitely is.

Edit: The second book I tried was utterly unreadable. I can't speak for how it looks on an actual Sony though.

03-19-2009, 01:52 AM	#16
carld Wizard Posts: 2,698 Karma: 4748723 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Just for grins I installed Sony's ebook software (since the newest version supports Vista 64) and gave the free book library a try. I used Calibre to convert an epub to mobi and sent it off to my Kindle, and it displayed well enough. As far as I can tell these books are already available through google books. So, the content is nothing new, but being able to get them more conveniently definitely is. Edit: The second book I tried was utterly unreadable. I can't speak for how it looks on an actual Sony though.