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Can the Sony Ebook reader read books in other formats?

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.

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I am looking into a Sony Ebook reader. Can someone tell me if the books from google books are limited previews?

I am looking into a Sony Ebook reader. Can someone tell me if the books from google books are limited previews or the entire book?
Ok, that explains it. I was trying to decide if the Sony reader is worth it without having to purchase all of the titles. Google seems to have very few choices in the Public Domain section as opposed to all of the books with limited reviews.
THANK YOU!! That was very helpful

For Google books that are in the public domain, you can get the entire book. But actually there are other place like this website, which provide a lot of free books readable on ebook readers like Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle:

http://gutenberg.org/

I'm not sure if it helps, but I'll suggest you to go for the Kindle instead of Sony Reader. The Kindle is better because it has free wireless and text-to-speech function. There are more ebooks you can find available for the Kindle, and books on the Kindle are quite a lot cheaper too. There are some good comparison between them here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR3ULAFVHBGYVQP%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Frdp%255Fperm&tag=moreinfo-po-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/kindle-2-0-vs-sony-reader-prs-700bc-comparison

And in case you don't know, Amazon has recently put a price slash on the Kindle 2, and it adds in international wireless access and native PDF support... So take the chance if you want it.

Hope it helps

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