12-22-2007, 03:21 PM | #1 |
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Books purchased not in My Account
I've bought more than 40 books from CONNECT in the year I've had the 500. When I go to my account, and click on "View and Download All Purchased Books," there are only seven books listed.
As Sony is not open weekends, just wondering if anybody knows what happened to all the rest? Did they vanish when it changed over to eBook Library from CONNECT? If so, any way to find them? |
12-22-2007, 03:30 PM | #2 | |
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12-22-2007, 03:34 PM | #3 |
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P.S. OK, just looked in Win Explorer, and find that under the folder My Books, there are two subfolders, one called CONNECT and the other eBook Library.
The CONNECT has about 35 and the Library has the seven. Another brilliant move by Sony, relegating all the other books to a separate folder, and not making them available under My Account any more. As they are all named some idiotic sequence of names such as sbuscehch0257b0y.lrx, I'd have to click on each of them, one by one, to open them to find the title, and perhaps rename them. That would take hours which I don't want to waste. Even if I did that, how could I get them back into the Reader if I wanted to? |
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All that happened is that Sony, in their brilliance, changed the software but did not keep in my account all the older books I bought . |
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12-22-2007, 03:47 PM | #5 | |
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12-22-2007, 04:59 PM | #6 | |
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I copied several over, closed everything and reopened the eBook Reader, but still had only the original seven books. Guess will have to wait until Monday and see if Sony can get the old ones transferred. Thanks for the suggestion anyway! |
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12-22-2007, 05:33 PM | #7 |
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Use File-Import Files... menu to add them.
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12-22-2007, 06:23 PM | #8 |
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12-24-2007, 04:02 PM | #9 |
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My books also vanished from my purchasing history last week (the Connect-to-EBook Library upgrade didn't lose them on my local machine, though).
I sent a note to Sony customer service and got a non-sequiter response (looked like it was machine generated), but a day later all the books showed back up in my purchase history. Not sure if they fixed it for my account or it was just some general glitch that cleared up. I'd recommend you drop Sony a note, KG, even though you've recovered the books locally. Having them in your purchase history is good disaster insurance (so you can re-download them). Regards, Bob |
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