Question about my new 505.

[itzmeigh]

I am waiting on my new 505 to come in the mail. I am new to the 505 but not so much new to the eReaders. I use to read on a small palm. And my parents and sister and 2 BILs all read on palms. So between the family there are lots of eBooks floating among us.

Some of our books come from the site www.ereader.com but it says that they don;t work on the Sony. But I know that you smart folks here have found ways around such as that and I was wondering if I can in fact still get books from there for my new Sony or if I will have to change to a new source. (We use other sites too, just Mom has a book on there that I wanted for our trip next week.)

[sammsmom]

I really have no clue...but I would suggest trying one of the conversion programs like calibre to convert one of the files that you have to lfr or epub. I know that there is probably someone out there who is more helpful than me

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by itzmeigh

Some of our books come from the site www.ereader.com but it says that they don;t work on the Sony. But I know that you smart folks here have found ways around such as that and I was wondering if I can in fact still get books from there for my new Sony or if I will have to change to a new source. (We use other sites too, just Mom has a book on there that I wanted for our trip next week.)

For your eReader books you'd need to use ereader2html on them and then convert the HTML (using Book Designer or possible Calibre) into an LRF or EPUB for use on the Sony. The resulting HTML from ereader2html can sometimes be pretty poor and need some editing, but you eventually end up with a good book. Note that doing this circumvents the DRM.


As far as sources for books for the Sony...

You can of course buy books from the Sony store.

You can also buy ePub (with or without DRM) books.

You can buy PDF (with or without DRM), but PDFs generally don't display as well as other formats.

You can buy Multiformat books from Fictionwise and download the Sony LRF formatted version.

If you like SciFi (and a little Fantasy) you can get DRM free Sony formatted books from Webscription.net, they have lots of freebies too.

Some of the ebook only pubs sell Sony formatted books.

You can get nicely formatted public domain books here at MR or from Feedbooks.



Another thing some do is buy MS Reader formatted books or Mobipocket books and remove the DRM. The files, sans DRM, can be converted to LRF or EPUB in Calibre in a matter of seconds.

[Angst]

Try this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20407