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mjt57 · 02-09-2011, 06:45 PM

I'm in Australia. My wife recently returned from a trip to New York. She got me a Literati.

I'm experiencing a lot of the problems. For example, my PC running Windows 7 doesn't recognise the unit when connected to the USB port.

I bought a 4 gig SD card (HC type). I copied a number of PDFs to it. It took a few goes for the Literati to see them. When I tried to open one to read it the unit said that they were DRM'ed. They shouldn't be.

I converted some PDFs to EPUB using Calibre. I copied them to the SD card.

When I inserted it and turned the reader on, it scanned it for new media then locked up.

I tried this numerous times.

Calibre doesn't see it when the Literati is connected. So I can't add new books to it, convert any and send to device or to download newsfeeds to it.

It runs Ver 1.9 of the firmware/software. Wireless networking works fine. I can buy any book that's available to me. Unfortunately there are quite a few that are not due to the farcical copyright restrictions that book publisher impose on the reading world.

I have a Kindle DX. This Literati was supposed to be a replacement for it as the Kindle's too big and too heavy for reading, really, particularly in bed. So, I tried to transfer my Kindle library to the Literati. But because the Kindle doesn't use the EPUB format I have to convert the books, most of which are .azw files which are DRM'ed by Amazon.

So, in short I'm stuck with a PoS which I can't return, which has limited value because of region copyright restrictions and which I cannot connect to my computer.

I'll stick with the Kindle. It's registered as a US originated unit so I don't have any problems obtaining the books that I want to read. And it works flawlessly.

02-09-2011, 06:45 PM	#42
mjt57 Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 478544 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Victoria, Australia Device: Kindle Oasis, Kindle app on iPad and iPhone	I'm in Australia. My wife recently returned from a trip to New York. She got me a Literati. I'm experiencing a lot of the problems. For example, my PC running Windows 7 doesn't recognise the unit when connected to the USB port. I bought a 4 gig SD card (HC type). I copied a number of PDFs to it. It took a few goes for the Literati to see them. When I tried to open one to read it the unit said that they were DRM'ed. They shouldn't be. I converted some PDFs to EPUB using Calibre. I copied them to the SD card. When I inserted it and turned the reader on, it scanned it for new media then locked up. I tried this numerous times. Calibre doesn't see it when the Literati is connected. So I can't add new books to it, convert any and send to device or to download newsfeeds to it. It runs Ver 1.9 of the firmware/software. Wireless networking works fine. I can buy any book that's available to me. Unfortunately there are quite a few that are not due to the farcical copyright restrictions that book publisher impose on the reading world. I have a Kindle DX. This Literati was supposed to be a replacement for it as the Kindle's too big and too heavy for reading, really, particularly in bed. So, I tried to transfer my Kindle library to the Literati. But because the Kindle doesn't use the EPUB format I have to convert the books, most of which are .azw files which are DRM'ed by Amazon. So, in short I'm stuck with a PoS which I can't return, which has limited value because of region copyright restrictions and which I cannot connect to my computer. I'll stick with the Kindle. It's registered as a US originated unit so I don't have any problems obtaining the books that I want to read. And it works flawlessly.