Sunday, December 02, 2012

new rule for my sony ereader

No buying DRM books through the Sony Store till I can figure out how to strip the drm before I put it on my Sony reader.  Sorry bookstores, you're out of luck.

Once again, I've had the waiting circles freeze my ereader mid book, requiring a reset and another sync with the desktop app to get the reader to recognise I have the right to read these books.  Maddening.  And what do I do if this happens on holidays when my computer with the downloaded rights is not available?

I must try a drm book on my kindle and see if it happens there too.

In comparison, I've read 30-40 books on both platforms that weren't drm'd and I've had zero problems.

Go Baen and Smashwords!

3 comments:

Andrea K Höst said...

Do you use Calibre Jenny? It's kind of the main tool people use to manage ebooks these days. It doesn't have an in-built DRM stripper, but you can download an add-in which does it. It makes it very easy to merge your multi-format library.

Lexifab said...

I second the recommendation of Calibre. It's a good backup tool and will also helpfully convert books that aren't offered in the right format for your reader (

Anonymous said...

I don't ...but I'm thinking I should.

Jenny