"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…

 

UNREADABLE

on it!"

Look at these pictures…

How your PRS-500 looks

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!!!

 

This is the result of copying the text from a .pdf to a Microsoft® Office Word document.

 

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…

 

A. My eyes hurt when I read them on the computer screen

B. I care about the environment (just like you) so even though I could get my e-books printed at my local Kinkos' for a fair price, I’d feel guilty for all the trees that had to be cut down so I could read:

“Ties to Success, learn now how to tie a tie in 21 different ways”

 

And…

C. I don’t have too much time to read, so if I get some little free time, I’d like to have a book with me, reading on a laptop while on the subway isn’t a smart choice.

 

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

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“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:

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Now using Michelangelo’s line break removal feature it looks like this:

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  Looks much better doesn’t it? It removes ONLY the crazy line breaks that don’t need to be there but leaves the ones that were completely intended by the author UNTOUCHED, this is possible thanks  to the highly logic algorithm that forms the core of Michelangelo 2.0

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:

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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.

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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:

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If you are using Word XP or 2003 it gets its own nice little toolbar.

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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.

  This is how it works:

 

Copy text from any of your e-books on .pdf format and then paste it in a new word document.

 

Microsoft® Office Word XP/2003
Microsoft® Office Word 2007
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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.

 

"I am surprised on how easy is to use Michelangelo. It is a tool that Microsoft should have incorporated years ago on their software. A software that accurately stitches the sentences that the Windows clipboard breaks is simply amazing."

Lawrence (Larry) Moore

 

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:

 

*  Formats the paper on your .doc in 0.35 seconds to make it fit the screen of your PRS-505

*  Automatically removes the line breaks that result from the copy/paste operation

*  Respects text with unique formatting: bullet points, text in bold and italics, different sizes of text (titles, subtitles)

*  Makes you save up to 65% of your PRS-505 battery by making the document smaller (via line break removal)

*  Saves you hundreds of dollars from printing the letter-sized e-books you already have on your computer that aren’t readable on your PRS-505

*  Gives you the freedom to buy an e-book from anywhere without worrying if you are going to be able to read it on your PRS-505.

*  You now can copy text from your favorite blog and read it on your PRS-505

*  Gives you the ability to easily format your own documents (essays, poems, novels, school papers, etc) for your PRS-505

*  You can easily scale up or down the text as many points as you wish so you can read comfortably without eye strain due to small font:

 

 

No more eye strain!

 

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""I was so excited to receive my Sony Reader PRS-500 for my birthday. I've been wanting one for awhile as I am a book-a-holic ( 2 books a day) and I really don't have room anymore to store them all. As I have been slowly converting to digital books (eBooks) since I have been recovering from a heart transplant, I had a ton of books on my computers (desktop and laptop). With my immune system compromised for the rest of my life, going to a book store is a big deal and all the germs there could seriously hurt me or even cause my death. Hence why I started turning towards eBooks.

To my profound disappoint, when I transferred my eBooks to my Sony Reader, I couldn't read it as the print was so small. I thought I was losing my mind or my vision. For days I researched on the internet to find a solution. Through a link on Wikipedia, I found it. The PRS-500 Formatter. It has saved me and my sanity. It is so easy to download and so easy to use. With just a few clicks, all my books are now on my Sony Reader and I am able to read to my hearts content without fear of losing my vision. Thank you so much for creating this formatter and for making it available at such a great price. I will definitely spread the word to my other eBooks contacts....that's for sure!"

Jen Williamson

 

 
 
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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

 

"...I love cookbooks. I have purchased on ebay.com nearly a 100 of them and my family loves when I cook new exotic things. I had all my cookbooks in my computer so I had to print them all the time. My son bought me a sony reader for my birthday and loved it since day one. But just like the website says, the words on my reader looked so small I couldn't read them. So I looked on the internet and found Michelangelo. I have been using it for 2 weeks now and it's great. In minutes I had my Thai cuisine cookbook on my reader "

Veronica Manzano

 

 
 
 

 

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

$65.95

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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.

 

"Hi, I have been using the sony reader since it came out last year. I bought it because it said it was compatible with PDF files. I had a lot of ebooks on PDF so I thought it would be nice to carry them around. Sort of an ipod of ebooks. But yeah I had to manually format each one of them to fit the 6" screen of the reader. But it was such hard work that I'd rather read them ebooks directly on my puter screen! a friend told me about Michelangelo and really, for the 45 bucks you get the real deal. It really works. I have managed to format 27 ebooks since I bought it. I really value it cause let me be honest with you, I'm lazy for that kind of stuff. I prefer to have my puter do it for me =)"

Gary Waters

Waco TX 

 
 

 

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.

The PRS 505 is sold only in the U.S. and the connect store is available only for US. residents. But what about people living in other countries that travel to the US and buy their readers? or order them by mail? Their choices are limited. They can't buy ebooks nor read the ones they had on their native language due to the imcompatibility with letter sized documents.

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.

 

"Hi, my name is Mordang-Rijken and I am from Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. I bought my PRS reader on ebay and don't know that my ebooks can't be read when I purchased or can't use the sony store. This is why I love your software, it is really very good, I have all my ebooks in it because for your software. Thank you sir."

Mordang-Rijken

Netherlands

 
 

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?)

 

"..... I just carry around all material for my cases on the sony reader. It takes me only minutes to have all the word documents I need in court in my reader. ......it works perfect for me, thank you."

David Ramsley

 
 

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.

 

"Well, I pretty much use my reader for school. I'm a student. I attend Malaspina University on Nanaimo, BC. And what I use my reader to keep all the material I need for class. Some of the text books and other class materials are on pdf, but I had to go manually over the formatting thing, which takes a lot of time. I then downloaded this software and yep, it does what it says it does. Formats every text for my PRS 505."

Shane Kennedy

Nanaimo, BC. Canada

 
 

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.

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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!

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