Sony ereader to ipad

nick101 wrote:
You can't get the Sony books that have DRM. Non-DRM books in epub format come across fine.

It's the curse of DRM - you paid for the book and you can only read it on one kind of device.

I agree. "Bluefire Reader" works great with the ebooks from the Sony Reader library. You simply add the .ePub files into the File Sharing section for the Bluefire Reader app in iTunes and sync. Then when you launch the app, you need to enter your Adobe ID and password and you can enjoy the books. I have transferred all of my Sony Reader books over and have had no problems with.

Just thoguht I'd follow up on this in case anyone stumbles across it - since these posts were written there has been a new App added to the iOS App Store called "Bluefire". This will handle ePub books with the Adobe DRM on them, so any books bought for a Sony device will be readable on your iPhone/iPad.

I have the answer. Sadly Sony and Apple are fighting over money and rights. We will let them work it out. In the mean time I had 180 books on my Sony Reader that I paid hard earned money for. So Apple, please get on with the negotiations.

The Solution:

1.) Down load the TXTR program onto your home computer where you have all of your Sony books. Upload th

e ones you want to read.

2.) Download the TXTR App onto your iphone and ipad. The books will all be there.

Yeah...... it works and your money is not wasted.

I still want Sony and Apple to work out a deal. I can read Kobo and Kindle books on them. Sadly in Canada the Nook does not work yet. Barns and Noble, get it together.

The Answer, TXTR onto your computer where your Sony epub books are and TXTR app on your iphone and ipad.\\

Just like magic.

The books are on a Sony reader and you are complaining to Apple that you can not read it on their hardware?

Do you ask your DVD maker to provide a means to play Blu-Ray on a DVD player because you spent money on it?

I put some petrol in my Ford and now when I go to drive my Chevvy it is out of fuel. I paid hard-earned money for that fuel. Come on, Ford, stop the posturing and get on with the negotiations to provide a car that automatically transfers fuel to my other car when I want to use it.

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I've had the same problems but we are not without solutions. the BAM reader (books a million) or Bluefire will open your books that you purchased for your sony library. you can either copy them from your library on your PC (My Documents\My Books\Reader Library) and paste them in to the BAM or Bluefire app on itunes. Or you can download Dropbox which I highly recommend becuase you can synch your books or most any other file across many devices. try to open them in dropbox and it will tell you that Dropbox is unable to open the file and will give you an option to open with another app. Choose BAM or Bluefire and your book will be placed in those libraries. The downside is that while you can spread your books around to differnent devices they will not synch your reading locations or bookmarks like it does using the Sony Reader library on your PC or Android. But hey, at least you can read them.

If you are going to question my logic at least read it first. With an ebook the software maker doesn't really care about the reader so is pretty much prepared to give it away. What they want to keep locked away is the actual money they have invested in the book. Microsoft put the cash into making Excel and will get very tetchy if you make a copy of it, but what you do with Excel files is up to you. In both cases, and logically, the licence protects the commercial content, but in one case that is the book and in the other it is the program. Try telling Microsoft that you have an Excel file you want to pass to your friend so you are going to give the friend a free copy of Excel and see how fast their lawyers get to your door.

Good luck finding a means to get the book transferred, but don't claim you have a right to transfer it from one reader because you bought it in another.

You advise Kitty to read your logic first - good advice; perhaps you should have read Kitty's post first, because you're commenting on something completely different...

At no point did Kitty claim she had a right to transfer books from one reader to another. Nor did she ever complain about it - she simply asked if there was a way. Which, as has been pointed out, there is - so that puts paid to your wittering on about, er, whatever it is you're going on about.

Indeed, you make Kitty's case for her - as you say, what you do with Excel files is up to you - and in this scenario, eBooks are the Excel files, not Excel. Sony has no interest in eBooks; they don't make/publish them, they make eBook readers. In fact, it is in Sony's interest for you to be able to read any eBooks you like on their hardware - that's why they've chosen to allow as many formats as possible onto their device.

Perhaps you are confusing Sony with Amazon? It's the only way your waffle makes any sort of sense. Except for the bit where you can read Amazon books on pretty much any sort of device - be it Amazon's own hardware, or an iPad, iPhone, Mac, PC, Android...

Anyway, just to recap - you can indeed read ePub books on iOS devices.

And interestingly for those who know the logic comes from the Greek for word or read, my word 'complaint' was not used in a reply to Kitty but to someone else.

She then goes on to confuse a computer with the programs on it in her response to this. An Apple computer is a machine which can read files from Microsoft, a computer program maker, because Microsoft made a licensed program available to do just that.

And then you steam in.

Good point - your "logic" post was in response to Kitty, but I see the "complaint" post was in response to someone else - I didn't check that.

My bad, but it still doesn't change the fact that you're talking nonsense and just adding confusion to an old thread that has already been solved.