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RE: great By PrinceGaz on 9/27/2006 9:18:23 AM , Rating: 2
According to the official site, you can view PDFs and RTFs on it
(among other formats) but it does also mention in a footnote
about using the supplied software to convert them to a
proprietary format. So maybe the device only natively supports
its own format and all other documents have to be converted to
that format before transferring. I'm not entirely certain
though. Since most books I've downloaded are in either PDF, RTF
or Word format (and Word can be saved as RTF), an automatic
conversion while transferring isn't really an issue.  If it were
Memory Stick only then I'd not be interested, but in a welcome
departure for Sony, it also has an SD card slot so you can use
them instead. Given the price of SD cards compared with Memory
Stick, I think most people