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dasoulseeker · 07-28-2008, 05:57 PM

Well, I am a PRS-500 owner myself, and I have seen many others disappointed at the lack of firmware update for our readers. But I am not here to debate whether Sony is evil.

To me, the only significant new feature was the pdf reflow, and I suspect this for many others too. Whilst porting the firmware will probably be difficult (if not hardware wise impossible), I just want to read the big pdfs. After seeing the Sony Ebook Library emulating the PRS-505, I thought - hey, why can't we just take those and save as a new pdf? Or in fact any desktop application which can save a reflowed document in a specified size?

To my surprise, there was nothing.

Suggestions, ideas, technicalities?

07-28-2008, 05:57 PM	#1
dasoulseeker Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Scotland, UK Device: PRS-500, DR1000s	PRS-500 users - hear me out... Well, I am a PRS-500 owner myself, and I have seen many others disappointed at the lack of firmware update for our readers. But I am not here to debate whether Sony is evil. To me, the only significant new feature was the pdf reflow, and I suspect this for many others too. Whilst porting the firmware will probably be difficult (if not hardware wise impossible), I just want to read the big pdfs. After seeing the Sony Ebook Library emulating the PRS-505, I thought - hey, why can't we just take those and save as a new pdf? Or in fact any desktop application which can save a reflowed document in a specified size? To my surprise, there was nothing. Suggestions, ideas, technicalities?