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Originally Posted by Petey
What is DRM?? Is "stripping" it hard to do? Besides being a newbie to forums, I'm a newbie to the computer and the ebook! Thanks for the answers, it's been helpful!
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DRM is Digital Rights Management. It's a copy protection scheme designed to make it almost, but not quite, impossible to read ebooks that you purchase. Stripping DRM is when you run the ebook file through a program that will remove the DRM. This "liberates" the file so that you can convert it to other formats, change the style, and do all sorts of other things prevented by DRM. Among other things, DRM will prevent you from opening a file from within Calibre. MobileRead forbids providing specific assistance with DRM removal on their forums, so I can't say too much here. Stripping DRM isn't hard to do, but it does take a bit of computer skill. As always, Google is your friend, especially if you search for i♥cabbages.
One thing nobody has mentioned yet is that Calibre will help you organize your books into Collections on your Sony. If, for instance, you tag a book with unread, Calibre will create a Collection called Unread when you send the first book with that tag to your reader. It can make it very handy to find books. Series also get turned into Collections on the Reader.
There are those in this forum who speak fluent code.
Fortunately, that's not a requirement for using Calibre. Every question you have has puzzled someone learning this program. Please don't be afraid to ask. The crowd here is very friendly and willing to help. If you don't understand an answer, please ask again for a better explanation.
I would recommend that you check out the free books (both DRM free and money free) that are posted on this website. Simply go to this link (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebo...&sort=dateline) and click on html. That will give you a list of all 15,000 books that have been posted here. You won't find the latest John Grisham, but you will find all the classics. To search for a specific book, press the Ctrl key and the F key at the same time and type an author or title in the search bar that comes up. Your Sony will like ePub and LRF books the most, but don't worry about format too much. Calibre will quickly convert them to one that works on your reader.
For purchasing books, I recommend
http://inkmesh.com and
http://ebooks.addall.com/. They search across lots of ebook stores to help you find books and compare prices. Just remember that books from Barnes&Noble and Amazon won't work on your reader. All of the other stores that sell ePubs and PDFs will work.