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No 505s came with AC adapter... optional accessory... not sure why that should be shady though, they never claimed it included an AC adapter.
There is actually a very good reason for not allowing reading whilst charging via USB... USB charging is designed for recharging from a computer whilst allowing the user to add/delete books... this means using Sony Reader Library or calibre which are accessing the memory to do this, reading at the same time would then have two different OSs accessing the same memory at the same time... not good news. I assume this software either disables the computer access to allow reading or blocks simultaneous activity as I'm guessing that reading and adding books probably don't work simultaneously or a book being read maybe marked as unavailable to the computer... clever work but still more likely to have problems than just not allowing it...
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