Well it turns out all is not quite so simple. Library books are protected by digital rights management (DRM), and the only way to get a DRM'd book on the sony reader is to run it through the sony software. And the sony software only runs on windows based machines. And the netbook we'll be traveling with runs linux. And for that matter, to buy from the sony store, we also have to run the sony software (which again, we can't, since we've got linux). So we'll be loading the ebooks before we go, and be forced to rely on non-copyrighted items when we've gotten through our initial purchases.
Once the Kindle arrives, we'll see if they do any better. I was told that you can send non-Kindle formatted files to amazon, and they'll convert them to kindle format, but...wonder whether this works with DRM?
In good news, we can load a ton of books on the readers before we go, and we can add while we're with Clarissa and John in England (using their windows machine). And there are an amazing number of free books out there (anyone want to read all of Shakespeare?).
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