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zelda_pinwheel · 02-08-2008, 07:08 AM

thanks for the info ! i will buy one of those.

the card reader i bought had a list of about 50 different formats it could read, smartmedia was supposed to be one of them, it has the correct size slot and the led for that slot lights up when i insert the card, but it doesn't go any farther than that... very annoying, since it seemed more interesting to have one reader for all formats than to buy (potentially) several different ones for individual formats (not that i have very many different cards to read, at the moment anyway... it does work with my camera's sony memory stick at least, so i guess it's not a total loss. although i usually just connect the camera directly via usb.).

plus, on a purely frivolous note, it's really stylie because the outer case is transparent so i can see all the circuits and such. i love electric circuits.

i wish i could always see the composants of my gadgets.

I have been using the GEB Librarian to transfer files to my eb1150 ever since Stephanos explained to me how to do it, so i don't need the card reader for that, however before i figured that out i used the filament books "my bookshelf" feature so i have many books on my reader for which i don't have .imp files on my computer, and i want the card reader to retrieve them from the device and make backups (so that i can delete them from the device when i need to gain more space) without having to re-convert them (no point in doing that twice...).

also i was curious to examine the code of the filament conversions to see how it compared with my Publisher conversions. i found a program on the yahoo group which will un-explode the folder from the eb1150 and re-compile it into .imp files, i want to try it out.

anyway i will get one of the specific smartmedia readers, that way at least i will be sure of the compatibility !!!

thanks again for the help !!

02-08-2008, 07:08 AM	#4
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	thanks for the info ! i will buy one of those. the card reader i bought had a list of about 50 different formats it could read, smartmedia was supposed to be one of them, it has the correct size slot and the led for that slot lights up when i insert the card, but it doesn't go any farther than that... very annoying, since it seemed more interesting to have one reader for all formats than to buy (potentially) several different ones for individual formats (not that i have very many different cards to read, at the moment anyway... it does work with my camera's sony memory stick at least, so i guess it's not a total loss. although i usually just connect the camera directly via usb.). plus, on a purely frivolous note, it's really stylie because the outer case is transparent so i can see all the circuits and such. i love electric circuits. i wish i could always see the composants of my gadgets. I have been using the GEB Librarian to transfer files to my eb1150 ever since Stephanos explained to me how to do it, so i don't need the card reader for that, however before i figured that out i used the filament books "my bookshelf" feature so i have many books on my reader for which i don't have .imp files on my computer, and i want the card reader to retrieve them from the device and make backups (so that i can delete them from the device when i need to gain more space) without having to re-convert them (no point in doing that twice...). also i was curious to examine the code of the filament conversions to see how it compared with my Publisher conversions. i found a program on the yahoo group which will un-explode the folder from the eb1150 and re-compile it into .imp files, i want to try it out. anyway i will get one of the specific smartmedia readers, that way at least i will be sure of the compatibility !!! thanks again for the help !!