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Old 12-18-2008, 12:13 PM   #1
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New Sony eLibrary Software Released
Sony has just released a new version of their Windows side software for the Reader. Called version 2.5.00.09170, the major improvements seem to be:
  • Adds support for 64-bit versions of Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating systemAdds support for the Sony Reader Digital Book PRS-700
  • Adds support for managing Annotations and Highlights
Sony is continuing with its stated position of not adding additional features for the PRS-500 and such improvements as the 64-bit versions of the operating system is not supported for the PRS-500 as the architecture is different from the PRS-505 and PRS-700.

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In addition to the items stated above, the new software provides two additional font size options for Windows on-screen viewing -- XL and XXL. There is no increase in the options available on the Reader, at least my PRS-500 still provides S, M, and L for the font sizes.
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In addition to the items stated above, the new software provides two additional font size options for Windows on-screen viewing -- XL and XXL. There is no increase in the options available on the Reader, at least my PRS-500 still provides S, M, and L for the font sizes.
Those are part of the PRS-700 features as it supports those font sizes.
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Those are part of the PRS-700 features as it supports those font sizes.
Point well taken. My intent was to keep expectations in line that this was not a feature enhancement for older models.

The installation is very smooth and in the brief time that I have used the new vesion. the eLibrary seems to run a bit faster than the prior version.
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Wasn't this version released a while ago? I remember someone talking a couple of weeks ago on the Sony forum about how 64bit Vista was now supported?
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I, too, seem to remember this mentioned about two weeks ago. I found two threads:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33905

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33550

This was the software for the computer (not the Reader). It allowed, among other things, to enlarge the text additional sizes.

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Sony has just released a new version of their Windows side software for the Reader.
FYI, it was released on Nov 25, 2008, a little over 3 weeks ago.

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu...=7#div_pos_126
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