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Originally Posted by Azhad
Well, they didn't resolve it from the prs-500 to the prs-505. The fact that the prs-505 is faster is only based on the fact that the new one got more ram, and maybe a faster processor.
The device isn't unusable, when you manage to open a book it work flawlessly (if you don't want to put a bookmark, that will cost you a minute o two waiting on a locked screen)
The only waits you get is on opening or closing a book, and putting or deleting bookmarks (one or two minutes for all of them); and the excruciating wait (30 minutes) when you toggle the memory card or when you use an usb based recharge method.
You can live with it, but is surely a pain.
I will surely love to ditch the current firmware and using something like the ubook reader (the best ebook reader I've ever used, for pc or windows mobile devices), but alas, we have to cope with Sony corporation, which is famous about total uncaring to his customers.
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I have to disagree with you BIG TIME! I have a 505 and it takes almost no time to bookmark a page. It in no way takes a minute or two to bookmark a page. Even removing a bookmark does not take long at all.
If you have used Ebook Library to populate the memory card, the only wait is when you insert the memory card as the reader has to scan for all the content. If you have not used Ebook Library to populate the SD card, you eill have to wait for the reader to handle some of the ebook formatting that your computer and Ebook Library would have done.
Page turning is faster with the 505 then the 500 due to the Vizplex screen being faster. I don't find the 505 to be excruciatingly slow at all. Granted if I was to load content onto it as though it was a mass storage device, I would have to wait for formatting. But once that was done, I would not have to wait again for that book.
When you plug the 505 into the USB port and then unplug it, you do have to wait maybe a minute for the 505 to be ready to go. That's not a big deal. in NO WAY is it 30 minutes or even close.
I'm sorry there is so much misinformation being spread here.