Can the Sony Ebook reader read books in other formats?
Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by admin
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?
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2 Comments on "Can the Sony Ebook reader read books in other formats?"
Nate said on Oct 1st, 2009 at 2:45 AM:
I assume, as long as there PDF
Elfwreck said on Oct 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 PM:
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 and, 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.
I assume, as long as there PDF
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 and, 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.