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Originally Posted by injapan
ok thanks for that
as I said, I am new to e-readers and had no idea, but we are going to Europe over the New Year. Might buy a new one
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It's understandable to assume that a product with the same product code should at the least use the same file formats globally. However, if you think about it, the epub standard as it is isn't well suited to corner cases like languages that flow vertically with non-alphabetic glyphs and syllabaries. Also, Sony definitely treats its home market differently than the rest of the world.
Any way, I hope you get your issue resolved. I imagine that at some point some hackers will have figured out how to flash US/EU firmware onto a JP reader (my guess is the hardware is identical and the only differentiation lays in the firmware flashed at the factory).