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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Books purchased (even for free) from Sony's ebookstore can only be downloaded with the Sony Library software on a Windows machine, and Calibre can't read them. They can only be read on a device (computer or Sony Reader) that's been verified to that account.
I'm waiting for Sony to realize how many sales they're missing because of their "protective" practices. (How many brick-and-mortar stores tell you what kind of shoes you have to wear to buy their books, and what kind of lamps you need to read them?)
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Calibre can't read them, but Calibre can copy them onto the reader. I suppose I'm misunderstanding the issue.
I use a Windows computer that is authorized to purchase and download from the Sony store, but appears to not be authorized to read them
. I haven't tried to fix it since I just transfer the books to my Reader with Calibre. (It may have only been a one time thing -- I have not tried to read anything within the Sony software since that initial rejection.)
I can only play Blu-Ray discs in a Blu-Ray player, I can only play Wii games on a Wii, and I can only watch satellite TV with a dedicated receiver. There are lots of things thing that I buy that I have to have a dedicated device to use. Having a Windows PC to use Sony software seems to be the same type of thing to me, except that I don't have to purchase a Vaio to do it.
