HOWTO make DRM-free ebooks for the Sony Librie

The Sony Librie is an eInk device intended for use as an ebook reader. It is fatally crufted-over with stupid DRM that the books you store on it evaporate after 60 days. It is also designed to keep you from loading texts that you convert at home on the device -- it is only meant to play files you buy from Sony's chosen vendors, even if you already own the text in another format.

Make has a detailed HOWTO for creating Librie books from digital texts that are free from this DRM, and will stay readable forever.

In this HOW TO we're going to use a PC (Windows XP) to convert text files to the Sony ebook format. This is the first in a series of articles, mostly because of the new demand for these devices and content for them.

Ingredient for this HOW TO:

* Sony Librie
* PC (Virtual PC on a Mac works, sorta). There are also other tools (see end of this HOW TO)...
* Memory Stick, not needed- but helpful
* Ebooks (txt files, pdfs, etc..)

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