Are ebooks on Gutenberg Project compatible with Sony’s Reader Digital Book?

Jul 02
2009

Im thinking of buying Sony’s Reader Digital Book PRS-505, but only if I can use the books that I download from the Gutenburg Project. Does anyone know if they’re compatible?

Yes! Project Gutenberg books are available in plain text, so you can use the material to create ebooks that may be read on almost any device or you can just read add the text file to the reader. Many of these files have already been converted into Sony’s format (LRF) for easy readability.

Here are a couple sites with free ebooks available:

http://manybooks.net/

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebooks.php?order=desc&sort=dateline

One Response to “Are ebooks on Gutenberg Project compatible with Sony’s Reader Digital Book?”

  1. Kim says:

    Yes! Project Gutenberg books are available in plain text, so you can use the material to create ebooks that may be read on almost any device or you can just read add the text file to the reader. Many of these files have already been converted into Sony’s format (LRF) for easy readability.

    Here are a couple sites with free ebooks available:
    http://manybooks.net/
    http://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebooks.php?order=desc&sort=dateline
    References :
    For more information, check out the Mobile Read forum. There are lots of friendly people there with good information.
    http://www.mobileread.com/

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