For the Sony, you probably want .epub. (Some prefer .lrf, and I read a lot of just plain .rtf files. Because I'm lazy. But RTF doesn't allow for a table of contents or pictures.)
And yes--you can convert to .rtf or .html, export them to somewhere else on your hard drive, and run those files through ebookwise's library software.
*Everything* is awful with a lot of PDFs. The best PDF readers are things like the Kindle DX--which is only okay because it has a larger screen that leaves them readable.
Converting them well depends on how the PDF was made, not the conversion software; some PDF creation programs keep enough data in the file to convert them (like paragraph breaks and bold/italics); some have stripped out that info so when you convert, you get plain text with a hard return after every line.
Re: html and Calibre?
And yes--you can convert to .rtf or .html, export them to somewhere else on your hard drive, and run those files through ebookwise's library software.
*Everything* is awful with a lot of PDFs. The best PDF readers are things like the Kindle DX--which is only okay because it has a larger screen that leaves them readable.
Converting them well depends on how the PDF was made, not the conversion software; some PDF creation programs keep enough data in the file to convert them (like paragraph breaks and bold/italics); some have stripped out that info so when you convert, you get plain text with a hard return after every line.