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Originally Posted by doctorbj
I am a very happy new owner of the Portable reader (Thanks to those who pointed out the VISA offer!).
However, after spending a great deal of time reading through these forums, I can't seem to find a basic discussion of commercial resources for Sony reader compatible books. So here are some questions:
1. It appears to me that the two available commercial resources are Sony Connect store and to some degree recently, Fictionwise. Are there others that offer 'native' formats?
2. Now it also appears that some conversion utilities, such as Book Designer, can take books in some other formats and convert to LRF, for Sony reading. Are there commercial resources that would sell books in convertible formats that are 'doable', and is it really easily 'doable'?
3. On the other hand Mobipocket is not able to be converted to Sony readable format because of Digital Rights issues?
4. For example, when I try to find a book such Michael Chabon' recent best seller The Yiddish Policeman's Union, it's not available (in fact not in any ebook format).
Please help me understand these issues, and correct me where I'm wrong.
I really do appreciate all the information many of you have provided, that has led me to buy this device!
Barry
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1. Just Sony Connect Store and Fictionwise.
2. If you purchase MS Reader (LIT) and use CLIT 1.8 you can break the DRM and use lit2lrf or Book Designer to convert. I've done both and it works fine. If you have the MobiPocket with DRM to HTML and then convert to LRF using html2lrf or Book Designer, that will work. But the MobiPocket DRM remover is only going to work if you own an iLiad since you need code to go with it that you can only legally get if you own an iLiad.
3. Not without stripping the DRM. See #2.
4. Not all books come out as an ebook or right away when the paper book does. So you have two choices. Purchase the paper edition or wait and see if the ebook comes out any time soon after. Then again, there is a chance it may never come out as an ebook.