Sony Partners With Google To Bring More Than 500,000 Books To The Reader - Page 10

kevindorsey · 03-21-2009, 03:07 PM

loc.gov does have a lot of books, but US topics are pretty boring for the most part.

dsuden · 03-23-2009, 10:46 AM

I have a Macbook and a Sony Reader. I just visited ebookstore.sony.com using a web browser, but it doesn't appear the free Google books are accessible without having the Sony library software. They don't seem to have a Mac version, so are the Mac users out of luck? Or is there a secure login version of the Sony site that gets you access?

igorsk · 03-23-2009, 11:22 AM

No, you have to use the PC software for now.

joblack · 03-25-2009, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by igorsk

No, you have to use the PC software for now.

Can you select all of them easily? Are they copy protected?

lorisgirl · 03-25-2009, 12:51 PM

I have a question. The only way to download these Sony/Google PD book is by using the software provided? It's not available for linux. Does anyone know how I can get access to them?

wallcraft · 03-25-2009, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by lorisgirl

I have a question. The only way to download these Sony/Google PD book is by using the software provided? It's not available for linux. Does anyone know how I can get access to them?

The Sony software under Windows does seem to be the only way to get the ePub versions. It is US-only (you get to choose the country - don't choose Canada) and Windows-only. There have been reports of earlier versions of the software working under VMWare, but not under Wine, see Connect running under Ubuntu Wine. However, earlier attempts were trying to use a PRS-505 (i.e. USB) and this isn't necessary for Google ebooks. There is an old report of partial success under Wine at WineHQ.

dragonbone · 03-25-2009, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I hope that's not a reference to Diana Gabaldon's rather awful books. I had a GF who loved them and she managed to get me to read the first one and it start off innocuous enough but nothing all that interesting and then came the time travel nonsense. And from there it went downhill from there quite fast. Outlander is a book that should remain lost in time. With LOST being the optimum word.

I believe men don't find the Diana Gabaldon Outlander series interesting, although there are millions of female fans, with myself being one of them

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doreenjoy · 03-26-2009, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by joblack

Can you select all of them easily? Are they copy protected?

You can't select them all at once. They aren't copy protected as far as I can tell.

lorisgirl · 03-27-2009, 12:41 AM

I, for one, welcome our mobile book editing overlords.

doreenjoy · 03-27-2009, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by lorisgirl

I, for one, welcome our mobile book editing overlords.

jimad · 03-28-2009, 11:34 AM

PG is starting to post EPUB format, which with Calibre command-line tools can be quickly turned into just about any format you like -- I've started posting them in Mobi format to http://freekindlebooks.org/MobiMirror. These postings contain the PG "legalese" ie they ARE the PG files "file format converted to run on your computer." As such you can do anything you might want to do with them that you can do with any other PG file. EPUB is probably a better place to start from though, not MOBI.

HarryT · 03-28-2009, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by doreenjoy

You can't select them all at once. They aren't copy protected as far as I can tell.

Why the heck would anyone want to select them all at once?

ShortNCuddlyAm · 03-29-2009, 08:01 AM

Can't think of a better thread in which to link to today's User Friendly cartoon:

although I can't say I agree with the sentiments...

Dr. Drib · 03-29-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by dragonbone

I believe men don't find the Diana Gabaldon Outlander series interesting, although there are millions of female fans, with myself being one of them

.

It's dangerous to generalize when it comes to reading habits and gender, or in anything, for that matter

It would probably be safe to say that some men might not care for Gabaldon's fiction.

I read one romance novel - a Harlequin romance - just to see what all the fuss was about. At the time, I worked in a used bookstore and women (and only a handful of men) came in looking for back numbers to complete their collections.

I didn't care for that Romance novel, because it seemed too simplistic for my taste. So I went back to reading about Bug Eyed Monsters (BEMs) chasing and cavorting with naked (or barely naked) females. That's called Science Fiction, which women do not like. (I'm making a joke!)

Don

dragonbone · 03-29-2009, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

It's dangerous to generalize when it comes to reading habits and gender, or in anything, for that matter

Thank you for teaching me sensei.

P.S.
I didn’t know that Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series is considered a romance series, or a 'Harlequin romance', whatever that is! Is that American for Mills & Boons? I would have thought that is was more Historical Fiction or even Science Fiction?

03-23-2009, 10:46 AM	#137
dsuden Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 120 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader	Google/Sony Offerings Available to Mac Users? I have a Macbook and a Sony Reader. I just visited ebookstore.sony.com using a web browser, but it doesn't appear the free Google books are accessible without having the Sony library software. They don't seem to have a Mac version, so are the Mac users out of luck? Or is there a secure login version of the Sony site that gets you access?

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