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Originally Posted by Khisanthus
Personally, I highly recommend getting your content from someone else. The single greatest feature on the reader besides the screen is the fact that they support .txt and .pdf files. For instance, if you like what they publish, Baen.com is able to supply a reasonable variety of material at good prices in many formats including unencrypted .txt files  nnect and the nightmare of actually finding what you want. |
Well, thanks, but I don't care for Si-Fi, and all the other sites mostly have Gutenberg books. I've download them for years to my old Rocket eBook, and if that was all I wanted, I'd just keep using that.
As bad as the Sony site is, I have had no problem in the past downloading purchased books, albeit it is a slow and tedious process. I called them this morning, and indeed, the techie was polite, took me all through the process, and admitted he had no idea. However, he promised to look into it and get back to me.
The reason I got the Reader is that I want to read some current books, and unfortunately, the Rocket eBook people abandoned the process. You used to be able to buy books for that on Amazon and Barnes & Noble at decent prices.
There are a lot of books on the Sony store I'd like to get, but obviously not until they get their act together. I won't hold my breath.
LG, the books I ordered are:
Black Swan Green David Mitchell
The March E. L. Doctorow
These two downloaded very quickly, and are in the Reader.
These will not download at all:
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Thirteen Moons Charles Frazier
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Concrete Blond Michael Connelly
S Is for Silence Sue Grafton
All I can hope for now is for Sony to solve my problem.
Thanks for the input, folks.
KG