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OK, I confess, I'm a newbie. I got my first reader for Christmas, the PRS-300. Prior to its arrival, I downloaded Sony Reader software, got some free classics from Gutenberg and bought a couple of books from the Sony store. Everything went fine, they uploaded perfectly to my new reader. Then everything went wrong. I was given a Sony gift card, used it to buy a book, downloaded the book into the Reader software, then went to transfer it to the Reader. Only one page transferred. Software wouldn't open. I have uninstalled and reinstalled every aspect of the software along with other tips given to me by support at Sony. Nothing works. Click on the icon, nothing. However my system (Windows 7 32-bit) shows that the program is "open". So I gave up on Sony support and downloaded Calibre and Adobe Digital Editions. Why didn't I do that in the first place? Ya live ya learn. At any rate, I have just learned from this group how I don't need to get the DRM protection removed in order to transfer a purchased book from Calibre to my Reader. I tried to transfer it from ADE into Calibre and could not figure out how to do that, drag and drop did not work. I admit I'm a bit shaky about connecting my reader and downloading the purchased books from Calibre for the first time, not knowing what that pesky Sony Reader software is up to...I read somewhere I shouldn't uninstall it due to the driver or something? All help and hand-holding at this point will be greatly appreciated, and if there is a way to decode the DRM from ADE to Calibre, tell me how! And I will be sure to tell everyone to avoid the Sony Reader software, it is a beast!
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