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Old 07-24-2008, 10:06 AM   #1
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Wowser, these americans don't half lie in bed late - it 14:00 here and still no dounload....
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Old 07-24-2008, 10:22 AM   #2
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When y'all get it downloaded and flashed, let us know if they fixed anything in the original list of limitations, like folders, TOC and pictures in RTF, ect. I know that's not as sexy as Epub and reflowable PDF, but still important to us dinosaurs...
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One more reason to convert the rest of my catalog to ePub!

It's funny: Just this week, I was introduced to my first Kindle in the flesh, and was satisfied enough with finally handling and examining it to agree that it might be worth my purchasing some day. Then this news comes out, just 2 days later, and I have to say that to me it puts the PRS-505 slightly ahead of the Kindle on my wish list. (How do they do that?!?).

In reality, I probably won't get either soon... I just found out I have to replace my 15-year-old fridge (D'Oh!). But maybe that will give Amazon and Sony time to come up with some more upgrades!
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Military? What's it got to do with "military"? Slightly lost there!
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Old 07-24-2008, 10:38 AM   #5
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The link to the press release in the original post is live now, as you all know the upgrade still isn't posted.
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Starting next month, new Readers model PRS-505, will be able to access and accept secure and non-secure ebooks in the EPUB format.
Er what?!
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Old 07-24-2008, 10:42 AM   #6
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Er what?!
They'll probably start distributing the PRS-505 directly with the firmware upgrade next month only. I guess they'll do a different packaging too.
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Er what?!
The press release also says:

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Users can download the upgrade for current PRS-505 models, starting on today from the Sony support site...
So I'm pretty sure the "next month" bit means Readers shipping with the new firmware out-of-the-box.
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Old 07-24-2008, 11:12 AM   #8
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So with these new formats becoming available, and for those of you more familiar with the other ebook stores/sources than myself, where are the best places to go to get books in ePub or Adobe DE, without having to go through conversion processes?

I see Feedbooks is one place I can go, where else?
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This makes me so happy that I chose a Sony. A few days ago I'd sort of been wishing I'd gone with a Cybook. Well, as long as this new firmware will still allow me to use my unicode patch, I'll be completely happy.

ACK I just reread. a real RED reader?? WANT. dammit!
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Old 07-24-2008, 04:51 AM   #10
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Old 07-24-2008, 05:00 AM   #11
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So I am afraid the PRS-500 owners are out of luck...
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Old 07-24-2008, 05:09 AM   #12
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Awesome news, can't wait to try it out! Now that we'll have a safe unbricking method I can release updated Universal Flasher and hopefully Hack Builder will work on the 505.
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Old 07-24-2008, 05:14 AM   #13
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Old 07-24-2008, 05:40 AM   #14
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Awesome news, can't wait to try it out! Now that we'll have a safe unbricking method I can release updated Universal Flasher and hopefully Hack Builder will work on the 505.
That's probably what we wanted the new firmware most for...
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