[Bookworm_Girl]

Hi, zylvere. I would suggest that you read the User Guide that came on your 950 to familiarize yourself with some of its features. You will find that many people on here really love their 950's. It is my primary ereader, and I own other brands too. The Sony devices primarily sync with your computer and not with a server cloud like a Kindle which has perhaps caused you some confusion. Also the sync button which was added to the 950 with the latest firmware update is meant to sync your 950 with any other 950's that you have registered to the same account and also in the future should hopefully sync with the soon to be released iPhone and Android apps.

1. I have successfully connected to two different home network routers, several hotels, an airport and McDonalds with no problems. Although others have encountered issues. It might help if you start a separate thread specific to your Wi-fi setup to see if you get better response for help. Also check the user guide to see what it recommends for settings. The user guide also explains that 3G is for connecting to the Sony eBookstore only. The Wi-fi is used for Google Books, internet browsing and wikipedia lookups.


2, Part 1. When you connect your 950 via USB cable, it is supposed to say "do not disconnect" until you eject it. It has mounted as a drive in Windows Explorer / Mac Finder just like any other USB mass storage device does. Therefore, you need to safely eject it via a method like Reader Library, Windows Explorer or Safely Remove Hardware.

2, Part 2. Your 950 won't "sync" with your hard-drive until you set it up to do so. You need to create collections within the Sony Reader Library and add books to the collections. Then, when your 950 is connected via USB and shows up in Reader Library in the left-hand column, you need to click the "sync" tab and select which collections you want to sync. It is syncing with your hard-drive through the Sony software. It is not syncing with a server anywhere via 3G or Wi-fi. It is just like syncing music Playlists with iTunes to an iPod as the best analogy. If you don't like the Sony Reader Library software, then maybe you should check out the alternative called calibre as Natasha recommended.

3. Bookmarks and notes can only be synced with the Reader Library software as far as I know. Perhaps calibre can too, but I always use the Sony software. When you open the book in Reader Library, then you will see icons in the lower left corner that allow you to view your annotations and even export them to an RTF file on your hard-drive. The bookmarks / notes are not synced back to a Sony server (like the Kindle does) which is why you don't need 3G.

4. Most ereaders don't do PDF's very well, but Sony is actually better in this area than most of the competition. You need to set the zoom lock in the upper right hand corner. Then it will stay the same as you turn the pages until you hit the unlock button in the upper right hand corner to stop it.

5. See Natasha's response.

6. The 950 is Sony's first implementation of a web browser so it definitely needs improvement. The inability to rotate to landscape view is a big missing feature. Hopefully they will add this capability in a firmware update, but you never know.

The people on this forum are friendly and will try to help you. Again, I suggest that you browse the User Guide. Also try the help documentation within the Reader Library software. If the 950 doesn't do what you want it to, then perhaps you would be better off with a different ereader.