Sony PRS-700 Update
- Joined the E-Reader Crowd
- Sony PRS-700 Update
- Sony PRS-700 Update II
- Kindle DRM Hacked
This is a quick one:
The software that ships with the Sony series of e-readers is truly horrible. I should have believed the other reviews regarding this. So, if convenience is a major factor for you, then the Kindle is definitelty the better choice.
But, as usual, the Open Source community has come to the rescue of all e-reader users, this time in the form of a program called Calibre which is an amazing e-reader management tool. And free! I’ve been using this program for a week now and I can’t say enough about it. The main feature that I like is the ability to use pre-made “recipes” to download and package RSS content into an e-reader format. So Calibre is able to pull down all the important blogs that I follow for work and load them onto the PRS-700 for me so I can read them on the train during the week. Amazing.
Get it at http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/.
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- 19 September, 2009 @ 19:18 [Current Revision] by Rob
- 17 May, 2009 @ 22:50 by Rob
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