One of today’s most interesting technological developments are portable Ebook readers. The two most popular readers are Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. Unfortunately for the Mac both of these companies are lacking compared to their Windows counterparts in terms of support, but I will give it to Amazon that they are least a little better. However the Kindle’s lack of support for .pdf files and it’s design was too ludicrous for me so I purchased a Sony Reader.
To get my Reader working with my Mac was fairly simple after a little research. There are a few options, but the best and most popular is an application called libprs500, the home site is located here.
libprs500 is open source, cross-platform and will work on Linux, Windows and most importantly OSX. Just do the usual install for .app files, click on here to download the app and move it to your /Applications folder.
To use it just connect your Reader to your computer and libprs500 will recognize the device automatically (libprs500 supports both the older PRS-500 and the newest PRS-505.) Click on whatever storage area you’re going to put your Eboks, it could be either the Reader’s own built-in space or your own SD or ProDuo card.
Then go up click on “Add books” and then navigate to the Ebook you want to put on, if you click the little arrow beside the “Add books” you have different options for adding multiple Ebooks, one for putting multiple pdf pages together to make a single Ebook, and another for getting different individual Ebooks from a folder.
I put together a screenshot (shown below) that shows the steps to add in Ebooks, just follow the numbers (1-3.)
Note: if you get a little error popping telling you that there is no folder, or something on those lines make sure you have the destination selected.
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