Mobipocket in PRS 505

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Ah. It would be nice if someone breaks Sony's DRM at some point. I would like the ability to convert the sony drm books that I have purchased to another format if Sony drops support at some point (either drops the product line or converts to a more standard format). I suspect it's just a case of getting someone with the right skill set interested in the project.

I think if Sony ever drops support you'll see the DRM cracked right away.

[igorsk]

If Sony drops the support I'll promise to look into it

[pwalker8]

Thanks, that would be appreciated.

[hidari]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I think if Sony ever drops support you'll see the DRM cracked right away.

Sorry to spoil the party this program does it:

http://www.processtext.com/abcsonylrf.html

and it works.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by hidari

Sorry to spoil the party this program does it:

http://www.processtext.com/abcsonylrf.html

and it works.

People aren't talking about LRF files - that's a non-DRM format; what people are discussing is the DRM-enhanced LRX file format.

The ABC converter is pretty bad; I don't know if you've actually tried it? You get plain text out of it - ie you lose all the formatting.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hidari

Sorry to spoil the party this program does it:

http://www.processtext.com/abcsonylrf.html

and it works.

It works very very very poorly. I did email the author not long after it came out and he said it would soon support a full conversion and it's never happened.

[JSWolf]

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The above is a sample of the conversion ABC Sony Converter did. Did a wonderful job of messing up the text.

[timnichol]

Originally Posted by flashgordonv

Well I own a couple of hundred Mobipocket titles which I have acquired over the years to read on my various PDAs. Exactly how can I get to read them on the 505 please?

When I hook PR5-505 to my computer I can see that I have my ebooks in the Reader Library and I can access these without difficulty. I also see that I have books from the Classical Selection on the flashcard but I cannot get these to appear on the ereader Can anyone help???

Tim

[timnichol]

Originally Posted by flashgordonv

Well I own a couple of hundred Mobipocket titles which I have acquired over the years to read on my various PDAs. Exactly how can I get to read them on the 505 please?

When I hook PR5-505 to my computer I can see that I have my ebooks in the Reader Library and I can access these without difficulty. I also see that I have books from the Classical Selection on the flashcard but I cannot get these to appear on the ereader Can anyone help???

Tim

[Worldwalker]

Why are you necroposting on this ancient and totally unrelated thread?

Why are you posting multiple times?

Why are you posting a user question in the developer section?

And why, for the love of all that's holy, are you doing so in COMIC SANS?

[netseeker]

Originally Posted by timnichol

When I hook PR5-505 to my computer I can see that I have my ebooks in the Reader Library and I can access these without difficulty. I also see that I have books from the Classical Selection on the flashcard but I cannot get these to appear on the ereader Can anyone help???

Tim

Hello timnichol,
welcome to MobileRead. As Wordwalker wrote, it would be better to ask such questions in the Sony Reader forum and not in the developers forum. Anyway, you are new here and MobileRead is not one of communities that alienate new members because of such trifles.
Regarding your question: It could be that your sdcard is not recognized by the Sony reader, can you try it with another card?

[JSWolf]

To put Mobipocket eBooks on your 505, you'll need to strip the DRM and convert to ePub using Calibre.

[Teddman]

Or convert mobi to lrf. Depends if you like full justification or not. On the 505, LRF will give you full justification, ePub will give you ragged right margins.

[JSWolf]

I much prefer ePub because LRF just looks odd. I use a custom font in ePub such that I'm not going to get simulated italics which not just looks wrong.