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Believe me or not, you can do that (at least with Sony Reader).
Here are the steps for you:

1. Install CutePDF on your computer (http://www.cutepdf.com/) or any similar PDF print driver.

2. Plug Sony Reader into USB. No drivers needed (at least with XP/Vista). Sony memory and SD card will be exposed as removable drives.

3. In whatever program you are using click Print and select CutePDF as your printer.

4. CutePDF will ask you for PDF file name to create, choose location on one of Sony Reader's removable drives.

5. Unplug Sony Reader and wait for a few seconds until it adds new files to the list. Off you go!
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The original support for PDFs on Sony 505 was really slow and buggy, it also could not restructure text in PDFs. All of that changed after last hardware update. Now PDF support is great, it can zoom and reformat text in PDFs at will, displays formatted PDF pages, plus it is very fast now.

You don't need to convert anything, just copy PDF files on SD card and insert it into Sony Reader.
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I meant to say firmware update, sorry]]>Mar 8th 2009 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/Mar 6th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/
Too much time on engadget huh, oh well.
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P.S.--Those pop-ups in the videos are very, very annoying!]]>Mar 7th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/Mar 17th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/06/bebook-e-reader-getting-wifi-new-firmware-update-eyes-on/
I contacted sales today with a very simple question "One really important feature is for me to be able to copy text out of a PDF into a document so I can summarize for later study?"

To which they answered.
Please have a look at the Support Forum on www.mybebook.com/forum to find an answer to this question.

Which I responded with
It would have taken less than a minute to answer my question. Instead I was shown that bebook's sales has no interest in my purchase. The complete disregard has answered my question. If this is how I'm treated and I'm not even a customer, I imagine once you get my money it will be just as bad or even worse.

To which they answered
You emailed us, while at the top of the form it clearly states: this form is NOT for technical support. For these questions we have the forum, where people can help eachother. Plus, our technical staff answers questions. Other people benefit from the answers, and we don't have to reply the same emails over and over again.

Besides that, we are Sales staff, not support/technical staff.

WHAT??!!? It was pretty clear that I was asking a sales question, I have no clue how they did not grasp this, especially after I mentioned it over and over again in emails. What kind of company expects you to create an account on a forum just to ask a simple sales question? I asked Amazon the same question and they answered it within minutes and walked me through the whole device. Odd small companies usually have better customer service cause they tend to need the sale more.. oh well.. ]]>Apr 14th 2009 6:41PM