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Originally Posted by Marcy
No, you don't need the Sony Crap, um, software, to install epub/pdf with DRM. You only need Adobe Digital Editions.
The only thing you need the Sony software for it to buy books from the Sony store or download the free books from the Sony store. If I didn't have a $50 gift card to the store that came with my reader I would have deleted their useless excuse for software off my computer. Once that card is gone, so is the software.
Word of caution -- install Adobe Digital Editions *after* installing the Sony software. The software steals file associations and makes ADE not work with your acsm files. It took me a couple of days and a lot of stress to figure that out.
Calibre does everything the Sony software is supposed to do and much more. And best of all it doesn't constantly crash, or screw up things on the reader. I highly recommend it and if you don't plan on buying books from the Sony store don't even bother to install their software. It is so poor that I almost returned my PRS-600 when I first got it. I loved the reader but the software was just unusable. Some googling found MobileRead and that led to Calibre and my reader and I have been happy together ever since.
-Marcy
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I take it you haven't used the software recently, as your opinion of the software was pretty close to mine. But as of the 3.0 the software has gotten much much better especially when it comes to sync and collections.
The sync now works both ways so if you drop a book on your eBook it will upload the book to your PC along with any bookmarks/annotations.
Personally I found by 3.0 I was using the Sony software for managing my reader where as before I swore by calibre. Btw calibre still rocks but he reader just sync well with its product as it should have done from the beginnig