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Timber · 06-09-2008, 10:44 AM

Hi All, love the site. Lots of useful information.

Got a quick question about the Sony Reader that I'm hoping one of you can help with.

Whenever I plug in my reader to my PC, it loses all the collections I put on it. The books are still there, but the collection meta information seems to be gone. Any ideas.

Some supplemental information to try to answer some of the troubleshooting type questions you will have.

1. Reader is a PRS-505/SC.

2. The ebooks I am reading are converted from their native format using Kovid Goyal's tool Calibre. (love the tool. Wish I could figure out how to make collections in it).

3. There's only 200 MB or so internal storage on the reader, so most of my books are on an SD card. I think I read an issue about collections on an SD card somewhere but dang if I can remember where. BTW I also get some really long start up times when the SD card is inserted. Not all that much on it. Just 1 GB, but really long (2 minute+) load times.

4. Content is loaded to the reader using the Sony reader software from the .LRF files made by Calibre.

Any suggestions you guys have would be much apreciated.

06-09-2008, 10:44 AM	#1
Timber Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: iPad, Macbook Pro, Kindle	PRS-505/SC loses collections whenever I sync Hi All, love the site. Lots of useful information. Got a quick question about the Sony Reader that I'm hoping one of you can help with. Whenever I plug in my reader to my PC, it loses all the collections I put on it. The books are still there, but the collection meta information seems to be gone. Any ideas. Some supplemental information to try to answer some of the troubleshooting type questions you will have. 1. Reader is a PRS-505/SC. 2. The ebooks I am reading are converted from their native format using Kovid Goyal's tool Calibre. (love the tool. Wish I could figure out how to make collections in it). 3. There's only 200 MB or so internal storage on the reader, so most of my books are on an SD card. I think I read an issue about collections on an SD card somewhere but dang if I can remember where. BTW I also get some really long start up times when the SD card is inserted. Not all that much on it. Just 1 GB, but really long (2 minute+) load times. 4. Content is loaded to the reader using the Sony reader software from the .LRF files made by Calibre. Any suggestions you guys have would be much apreciated.