[customelectronic]

Thank you!

For some reason, SD cards fit tight in my sony and it won't even recognize Sony brand SD sticks.
I have an old camera memory stick duo; so I plugged it in, and it fit nicely, spring loaded even, and was formatted by the e-book reader. It does boot the system into diagnostic/test mode when the appropriate file and directory are added to it .../Sony Reader/software/autorun.xml, but WOW I had to hold the sony 180 degrees out in order to press vol+ and home, shheeesh... sony's techs are probably irritated by that too.

I don't see any reason to install the full russified package. I loaded it and compared it to yours -- the scripts are the same with the exception that the files in mine have new_opt.900 instead of 600. Since the principle it works on is only the kernel extension (.so file) -- which is the same byte for byte in the 900 package as in yours -- that is all I really need. I looked at it with "less", said yes to viewing binary -- and since the debug information is there, I know it is safe enough -- it doesn't invoke flashing itself, it just launches (forks?) two processes -- and the actual commands are in ASCII, for ash shell. "chmod +x /tmp/script.sh", and "/tmp/script.sh"
So that is the script I want to modify --- looking at it, I commented out anything related to writing or changing the Sony; I just want the listing of all the directories to appear on my memory stick/or the internal memory if possible. Well ... here goes, let's see if I get lucky.

On the internal serial port -- the cramfs system for flashing has a /etc/???init file that starts a terminal on the spare serial port. So, I think it is only good if the reader is Russified, which I don't want to do. I mostly am interested in backing it up first, finding and fixing a few bugs that really irritate me (smallest font size is bigger than the "normal" size! UGH!). I'll let you know how things go.