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dstampe · 02-10-2008, 08:55 AM

About 2 weeks ago I had an issue where the 505 froze after disconnecting from the PC. I had to reset it, then noticed that all the books and collections were missing (but not the user's manual or sample music).
When I reloaded the books, I noticed the following changes in behavior:

1) Actions over USB now happened very fast (book transfers and collection creation/reordering). The 505 used to behave like the 500, that is very slow USB.

2) All books (including ones from the Sony site) now have a long "fometting..." screen when initially opened or resized (once for each size, this seems to be cached). This was definitely not the case before the crash. This really makes it hard to "browse" books when deciding what to read next.

3) The "eBook Library" software is very hard to start now, when I start it the floppy drives are scanned and it there's anything in them the program does not open a window. I can see that it is running in Task Manager, but no window.

Any ideas how to fix this? I don't mind the fast USB transfers, but the formatting is very annoting. I don't see any settings anywhere.

02-10-2008, 08:55 AM	#1
dstampe dstampe Posts: 50 Karma: 17 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Canada Device: Sony PRS-500	505 Reader, Library behaviour suddenly changed. About 2 weeks ago I had an issue where the 505 froze after disconnecting from the PC. I had to reset it, then noticed that all the books and collections were missing (but not the user's manual or sample music). When I reloaded the books, I noticed the following changes in behavior: 1) Actions over USB now happened very fast (book transfers and collection creation/reordering). The 505 used to behave like the 500, that is very slow USB. 2) All books (including ones from the Sony site) now have a long "fometting..." screen when initially opened or resized (once for each size, this seems to be cached). This was definitely not the case before the crash. This really makes it hard to "browse" books when deciding what to read next. 3) The "eBook Library" software is very hard to start now, when I start it the floppy drives are scanned and it there's anything in them the program does not open a window. I can see that it is running in Task Manager, but no window. Any ideas how to fix this? I don't mind the fast USB transfers, but the formatting is very annoting. I don't see any settings anywhere.