"I was super excited when my PRS-505 came on the mail but a few minutes later I had a sad realization: the dozens of e-books I already had on my computer were…
on it!"
Look at these pictures…
Note how the text in the first 2 pictures is illegible, this is because that's a regular letter-sized e-book on Acrobat® .pdf format, the same kind you and I have in our hard drives. All the e-books you have that are before the PRS-505 era look like in the first and second picture when loaded to your PRS-505. Only the ones that you buy from the Sony® Connect™ Store are readable and nice looking like the ones preloaded with your portable reader.
How cool would it be if you could create your own PRS-505 ready e-books easily and would look exactly like the e-books preloaded in your portable reader?
I’ll tell you how you can do it but first I’ll tell you how the solution to this “tiny unreadable text” problem struck me:
The text size on
all the regular e-books that are not made for the PRS-505 looks so tiny it’s
crazy to even try and read it
The font is supposed to
be large enough so you can read effortlessly. Books on your PRS-505 should be
read with the same ease as regular books on paper, so…
I surfed the internet for hours looking for a solution: either some software that
could format my e-books to fit the PRS-505 screen or a manual that would show
me how to do it. Only found the latter. It was a manual by Sony® which would show
you how to configure Microsoft® Office Word to make .docs or .pdf’s that would fit the
PRS-505 screen, nice!
So then I followed the
instructions and copied the text from the .pdf file to word but… uh oh…
a thousand crazy line breaks appeared out of the blue!!!
Those crazy line breaks are a serious
inconvenience, not only they are annoying, they make reading the book a tiresome task and not a pleasure, those breaks
interrupt the natural flow of the reading.
The author used punctuation
for where breaks or pauses are intended, these line breaks totally destroy the author’s work.
Also those line breaks
extend the length of the document up to a 65%!!! And because the battery on your
PRS-505 is based not on time used but on page turns, your battery life per charging cycle is reduced in a massive 65%!!!!!
A document or e-book on .pdf in order to be read on your PRS-505 needs to be configured in a
special way, that’s why if they are in A4 or letter size, they are unreadable.
Accoding to the manual by Sony® You not only need to resize the paper
size on Microsoft® Office Word but also set the margins to a specific distance.
Doing this resize paper
and set margins thing every time and then having to spend 146 minutes removing line breaks (204 page e-book) for every
document you want to read on your PRS-505 makes it a real PAIN.
My guess is Sony® made it hard for us so we would rather buy
the PRS-505 ready e-books (if available, their catalog is currently really
small) from their Connect Store (even
though we’d already bought the same e-books but letter-sized from amazon.com®
or eBay®.)
If we do some math,
spending 146 minutes manually removing the line breaks at minimum wage per hour
$5.85 we’ve just wasted $14.23, it was cheaper to buy the book again on its paperback
version!!! If you bought this nice PRS-505 at $279.99 I
seriously doubt you are on minimum wage, I’m sure that your time is WAY more valuable.
Just to avoid the time consuming task of removing the line breaks, the waste of money involved in buying again the
book but now on its paperback version and the eye strain from reading from the
computer screen (that’s one of the
reasons why you and I bought the PRS-505 in the first place, right?)
I’d just print the
e-book, waste 200+ paper sheets and contribute to the deforestation of the Amazon
rainforest in Brazil...
NOW the point of having the PRS-505 was
completely lost, the PRS-505 was ready to be stored along with the old walkmans.
I was extremely disappointed; nobody told me it would be that hard just to read the e-books that have been sitting in my computer for a couple of years now, and really,
they’ve been sitting there because…
That’s why
the PRS-505 looked like the best thing ever! And it surely is,
it’s a natural step in the evolution of technology, its portability and
features are amazing!
The only discouraging
thing is that you can’t read all the e-books on .pdf you already had unless you
go through the manual formatting process.
A few months passed…
I wasn’t going to give
up, I wanted to read my e-books on this awesome portable reader but don’t go through
the soul-crushing
process of formatting the e-book manually for
almost three hours, why would I?
This nice little gadget
is supposed to make your life easier, not the opposite.
But
hey,
There’s great news! after countless hours
working on possible solutions so we all members of the select club of PRS 505 and PRS 505
owners could enjoy our beloved collection of e-books that we have spent so many
years acquiring and couldn’t have
read, (because of all the
inconveniences from reading from a computer screen) a nice tool that would
perfectly complement the already great PRS-505 was born:
Introducing Michelangelo
2.0
The Only Formatting Software for the PRS-505
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is
the task of the sculptor to discover it”
Michelangelo Buonarroti.
And just like Michelangelo, that’s exactly what you will do with this software, out of the bulky text arbitrarily and savagely butchered, a nice eye friendly reading material fully compatible with your PRS-505 will emerge. Michelangelo 2.0 gets
safely integrated to your Microsoft® Office Word 2003 or 2007 as an Add-in (plug-in)
that works smoothly and effectively to format any text so it can nicely fit
your PRS-505 screen.
Goodbye unreadable text!
Features:
·
Michelangelo 2.0
has the EXCLUSIVE line break removal feature not available anywhere else in any other software in the market.
When you copy and paste text in word from one of
your e-books in .pdf, it looks like this:
Now using Michelangelo’s line break removal feature it looks like
this:
You could get the line breaks removed without Michelangelo 2.0, that’s for sure, there are several methods to do so, but guess what? With all the other line break removal methods (I’ve tried every single one for you, so that saves you an extra time doing research) the text totally looses the format every time, so you end up with some lifeless text that simply looks horrible and is hard to read:
Michelangelo
2.0 respects the original
format of the text so all the words in bold; italics or different sizes, bullet points and numbering preserve
their shape.
Michelangelo
2.0 gets so nicely integrated with word and it’s so easy to install and use
that anyone can use it. If you’re using Microsoft® Office Word 2007 it gets nicely and
automatically integrated into the Add-Ins tab:
If you are using Word
XP or 2003 it gets its own nice little toolbar.
All you need to do is press a button and voila, you
have a document fully compatible with your PRS-505 or/and the older model, the PRS 500.
Copy text from any of
your e-books on .pdf format and then paste it in a new word document.
Then just use the buttons to get the text ready for your PRS-505
The “PRS GO” button starts removing all the unintended line breaks from
the text on your document. It
takes only 5 minutes and 38 seconds to do what it would manually take a
human 146 minutes on a 204 page document.
The “PRS Paper” button sets the paper size and margins to the SPECIFICS
set by Sony® to fit the screen of your PRS-505 correctly. From the moment you
press the “PRS Paper” button to the
moment the paper gets fully configured it takes only an amazing 0.35 seconds!!!
The “+” and “-”
buttons are used to scale down or up the whole text.
This is so the font gets larger but doesn’t set ALL the text to the same size
e.g.
The text that was
size=14 when you press the “+” button will now be size=15 and the titles that
were size= 18 on that same text will now be size=19. And you can scale up or
down by 1 pt. any number of times you desire.
Now it’s super easy to format any document for your PRS-505 and PRS 505. Just imagine the possibilities…It was never easier. No need to learn how to use a different software, no need to learn to navigate through a new interface. Everything will be familiar to you.
You can now format any document and read it on your
portable reader in minutes!
In a nutshell
this is what Michelangelo 2.0 can do for you:
No more eye strain!
The time for absolute reading freedom has come. Expand the frontiers by complementing your Sony® Portable Reader System with Michelangelo. Sculpt your own documents with ease. Feed your passion for reading even more, there’s no limit for what you can learn, for the worlds you can discover
Finally the chance to read the
e-books you´ve been acquiring for years is now at hand.
Michelangelo will help you make of
reading an e-book a more pleasant experience
For a limited time only, it will be
available at the low price of
Remember that this price is only for a limited time. 45.95 is a very low price I know (it’s like
buying Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at
Amazon.com + shipping), but I really want you to complement an already great
product: The Sony® PRS-505 and fully enjoy it.
I know you would like to use this software right now, don’t worry, the delivery is instantaneous! It doesn’t matter if you buy it at 3 am. After making your payment with PayPal®'s secure checkout system you will be redirected to a webpage in which you will be able to safely download your software.
And that’s it, you’re
good to go.
This Software comes
with a fully illustrated
manual so you will never have trouble achieving the results you desire.
Michelangelo
is currently available for Microsoft® Office Word XP/2003/2007 and Windows® XP and
Windows® Vista only.
This situation really sucks. The good thing is that with Michelangelo all the borders dissapear. Your documents and ebooks in spanish, italian, german, french, portuguese, etc.... can now be formatted for your PRS 505 fast and easy.
Let me tell you how much money Michelangelo can save you and how much competitive advantage it can give you: One of our customers, Mr. David Ramsley. an attorney of a big firm in Chicago bought a PRS-505 to conviniently have all his documents (reference documents, books, statutes, codes and all the lawyer type of papers) in one place for quick and easy reference (it is way more convenient to carry a PRS-505 than to carry a 6 pound laptop or eight 300 page books) but he found the same problem you and I did, which is having to go through the soul crushing work of formatting documents for the nice little gadget. After the first tedious document formatting, he then realized he would rather spend that time working, making money, instead of wasting his time and money. He charges $50 an hour so, for spending 5 hours formatting a couple of documents, he would loose nearly $2,505 dollars. He put away his PRS-505 for a while and would only use it to esporadically read the Stephen King novel he purchased with his connect store credit. Months passed and one day he was looking in Google® for a software or a service company that would format documents for you, he found our website, he saw the time and money he would be saving for investing only $45.95 (remember, this price is only for a limited time) and happily made his purchase. He now has all the documents for all his cases on his Reader. Just imagine the competitive advantage he has over 99.3% of the lawyers in this country that still carry books and a zillion documents around (they surely don't have too much mobility so they have to take only local cases while David can carry his whole office in his pocket anywhere, Nice... isn't it?)
Just imagine what it can do for you if you are a student, have your own business, work for a company and need to carry reports and need to have all the info at hand. With this tool, you can have ALL your word documents formatted for your PRS-505.
Formatting a new document only takes minutes to Michelangelo 2.0! Get your documents easily formatted with Michelangelo. Let the artist do the work for you.
Expand the limits of your PRS-505 NOW PS. Be sure that you will get exactly what is described here. And you will also get a 90-day 100% money back guarantee in case that this software doesn't meet the description made here.
Decide now before the price goes back up. If you buy it right now you will only pay 45.95 and remember the money back guarantee. There is zero risk! If you have any questions or comments please |
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