Sony ebook reader ebook format

It does the bare minimum. But, of course, it's still early stages. Another small detail you're not told because they want to increase sales of the battery charger sold separately, of course is that it requires the same charge voltage, polarity and amperage as the PSP battery charger, so if you have a PSP you can use it's charger for both. For a much more practical and useful management of the library, format conversion and almost anything you need for the eBook, you're better off using Calibre.

It is, of course, a child of the Linux culture, and therefore free and open source. The best thing is that it breaks no code, law, convention or anything like it and you can use it with your eBook without loss of warranty, dangerous patching, suspicious hacks nor anything like it. But let's stick with what is important: books. There are plenty of sources for books Sadrac's library, the Guttenberg project, eMule, etc.

As soon as you do some testing with the PRS you will see that not all come in formats "optimal" and comfortable for reading. Here is the conversion proces starting from a flat-text format. Obviously, you can adapt it to other formats with a little thought.

As I say, we start with a flat-text file. We open it up in Word or Open Office , we select the whole text no worries here, flat text has no styles, but with other formats you will have to bear fonts in mind and we set the whole thing to Arial We set the margins to the bare minimum 0,5cm x 0,5cm x 0,6cm x 0,6cm and the page size to about half an A4 11cm x 15cm.

For an easier management of the library, edit the document's properties Title and Author. With this format, DRM protected files cannot be viewed by other devices. If it's an unprotected file, such as personal documents converted to AZW, the file extension can be changed to. There are three file type variants:. Used for large reference manuals and help documentation. Windows uses CHM for help files. DJVU uses advanced compression techniques for high-resolution images of scanned documents, digital documents, and photographs.

Its compression ratio is about 10x better than PDF, and retains the same high quality. Can be converted to other file types for improved ebook viewing. FB2's main focus is to preserve accurate ebook structure and to make it easy to convert to other popular ebook formats. Mobipocket's software can convert. These are lossless compression formats that reduce the amount of space required to store a document. Text, unlike music, can be compressed a great deal. These formats are considered to be containers in that they can hold multiple files.

In some case the ability to hold multiple files is more important than the actual compression. Don't confuse compression formats with eBook formats.

Although listed by some eBook readers as a supported format, these readers have only the ability to extract the compressed file and to get to the file or files inside. The reader must still support the actual underlying eBook format. Also, some eBook formats already include compression.

Jump to: navigation , search. They just added some newspaper subscriptions , with some exclusive to the Sony ebook store. You can also check out the all the other websites listed on this page and search their titles for your particular interest of reading material. You still use Sony's Library Software to manage your ebooks, or Adobe Digital Editions, but there isn't access to the online store.

Sony recommends Waterstone's and WHSmith. Other websites listed on this page may work as well, but some have regional restrictions so you may need to check first.