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geophyrd · 02-10-2008, 10:04 AM

Ok, got problems going on with my Reader. I wrote in once before, but the problems have escalated. I'll try to organize thoughts below:

I've been using a combination of LIBRIS and Book Designer to format books that I've found on the web. Then I convert them to LRF. Unfortunately, sometimes (for no apparent reason), the title goes away, or the author's name goes away. Sometimes they switch. Huh? Why isn't there a way to set them up in the Reader software? Other than the 'Collections' function, is there anyway to group series? The problems that I'm having with titles are interfering with setting up collections correctly.
I've noticed that the number of books in my Reader keeps changing. In a 2 hour span, it went from around 500 books to around 250 to 375. Not sure what's missing...
In the Reader software, the 'sort' function doesn't work. It changes the order of the library, but not in any readily consistent way. I need a way to get the documents organized, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. It isn't alphabetic, not that I can see.
When I try to delete some items in Reader software (covers for example), the software hangs and freezes. Now I can't apparently get things like this out of my library.
On advice I took from this forum, in addition to the 512Mg SD card, I also got a 2 gig MemStick. The mem stick isn't showing up in the Reader software. I checked...it is FAT formatted. Is one faster than the other (SD vs. MemStick?)

I guess that'll do for now. Its a shame that such a cool toy is being subverted so severely by its support software...

02-10-2008, 10:04 AM	#1
geophyrd Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: PRS-505	Help! Ok, got problems going on with my Reader. I wrote in once before, but the problems have escalated. I'll try to organize thoughts below: I've been using a combination of LIBRIS and Book Designer to format books that I've found on the web. Then I convert them to LRF. Unfortunately, sometimes (for no apparent reason), the title goes away, or the author's name goes away. Sometimes they switch. Huh? Why isn't there a way to set them up in the Reader software? Other than the 'Collections' function, is there anyway to group series? The problems that I'm having with titles are interfering with setting up collections correctly. I've noticed that the number of books in my Reader keeps changing. In a 2 hour span, it went from around 500 books to around 250 to 375. Not sure what's missing... In the Reader software, the 'sort' function doesn't work. It changes the order of the library, but not in any readily consistent way. I need a way to get the documents organized, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this. It isn't alphabetic, not that I can see. When I try to delete some items in Reader software (covers for example), the software hangs and freezes. Now I can't apparently get things like this out of my library. On advice I took from this forum, in addition to the 512Mg SD card, I also got a 2 gig MemStick. The mem stick isn't showing up in the Reader software. I checked...it is FAT formatted. Is one faster than the other (SD vs. MemStick?) I guess that'll do for now. Its a shame that such a cool toy is being subverted so severely by its support software...