I just got an ebook reader for christmas, and though the sony ebook site has a lot of material, it doesn't have everything I', looking for. Can I download eBook from other sites and still read them on the sony reader?
Sony Reader will read any .lrf (that's their format, the same as you get from their site, except the copy-protected ones are .lrx), .epub (with the firmware update), .pdf, .rtf, and .txt files.
PDF is by far the easiest to acquire; .epub is the most common & best-featured ebook format for portable readers. The Sony Reader will read any PDF–but most of them are formatted in a way that makes them hard to read; using the "M" and "L" options loses the formatting, but only some books are easy to read that way. (It's fine for novels; bad for charts & tables & anything with pictures.)
You can get free ebooks from http://www.manybooks.net and http://www.feedbooks.com, along with several other sites; feedbooks even has PDFs size-formatted for reading on the Sony Reader. And Mobileread.com has thousands of free ebooks, plus forums and a wiki that can help you figure out what's available and whether stuff the Reader can't read can be converted.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:19 am
I assume, as long as there PDF
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May 15th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Sony Reader will read any .lrf (that's their format, the same as you get from their site, except the copy-protected ones are .lrx), .epub (with the firmware update), .pdf, .rtf, and .txt files.
PDF is by far the easiest to acquire; .epub is the most common & best-featured ebook format for portable readers. The Sony Reader will read any PDF–but most of them are formatted in a way that makes them hard to read; using the "M" and "L" options loses the formatting, but only some books are easy to read that way. (It's fine for novels; bad for charts & tables & anything with pictures.)
You can get free ebooks from http://www.manybooks.net and http://www.feedbooks.com, along with several other sites; feedbooks even has PDFs size-formatted for reading on the Sony Reader. And Mobileread.com has thousands of free ebooks, plus forums and a wiki that can help you figure out what's available and whether stuff the Reader can't read can be converted.
References :
http://www.mobileread.com