I've been enjoying the PDFs of old books from Google Books for quite a while now, so this is good news. I read in the Wired piece that Google Books through Sony won't work with the 500. Does anyone know how to get it to work?
[Edited to add: I read on another thread about the 500 not being able to read epub and to (possibly) use Calibre to convert epub to what it can read.]
Since I also have a 505, I've tried it. Hmmm...
Here's my problem: I'm trying to locate and download a certain volume of Carlyle's. The problem is that there are no volume numbers on the listings AND the Google preview button seems to NOT be showing the right volume. I'll click it and it looks like the right one, but then when I download it, it's a different volume altogether. Frustrating to say the least!
A related problem is that the volumes all have the same name and the Sony downloader seems to be writing over each subsequent download, even though the volumes are different.
This was on a Vista machine. I'll dig out my netbook (XP) and see if that works any better.
Anyone have any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong?
(Btw, I've run into fingers (and whole hands) in some of the PDFs. It's funny, but I would enjoy the laugh more if they then went back and rescanned the pages they screwed up. I think they may have once or twice, but that could have been Internet Archive books instead.
It's heartbreaking when the page they completely mess up is the one page you need - in a book that is old and impossible to find anywhere else. (Yes, I relate this from experience.)
Another fun one is when they have volume one of a two volume series, and volume one ends right before what you need - and there's no volume two available.)