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Originally Posted by Patricia
That's not right. The books are stored on your computer. You might have copies on your PRS500/PRS505, but the master versions are likely to be stored in 'My documents/ My books/ ebook library' (or Connect Library, if you haven't updated recently). They are most conveniently viewed, and quite nicely indexed in the Ebook library/Connect library software.
1. Open your 'Ebook library/Connect library'.
2. To put books onto your Reader, first connect your reader (via mini-usb cable) to the computer. The Reader will then show up on the left-hand bar in the Ebook/Connect library. Drag and drop the books from the library to the Reader icon. Note that a copy of the book (usually) remains in the library.
3. You probably can't download another copy from Sony until you have deleted the corrupted version. In the Ebook library/ Connect library software, click on the corrupt book and delete it. Then you can download a fresh version.
I guess that you are new to all this. Don't worry: we were all new to it once. Sooner or later, it becomes second nature. (In the meantime, reading the manual helps.)
Incidentally, you mention that you are downloading classics. If so, then do take a look at our ebooks section. They are free. You may download them as often as necessary. And many of them are much better than the automatic machine-made conversions, because the people who uploaded them have often spent hours getting a favourite book just right.
I hope this helps.
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Patricia,
Thanks for your response. I did find all the downloads in My Books and there were 40 entries. I copied these files to another directory and then deleted these files in My Books directory. I received a email response from Sony Support and I was able to download all the previous ebooks I was interested in albeit one at a time to my pc. I then looked at My Books folder, saw all the downloads and then copied the other files in a different directory over to original My Books directory and made certain they werent duplicates. I seem to have different problems now :
1. I had three bars indicating the battery was slowly dying. My Ereader was connected for 1.5 hrs to my USB adapter hub and the ereader didn't charge my ereader connection. I saw two bars so I recharged the erreader and went to sleep. I disconnected it later that evening.
2. I see that all the downloads in My Book must be also on my computer at work because when I connected the ereader to my office computer, all the downloads I did last night weren't on the ereader at all. This I can correct easily.
3. I can only see my sd card in the ebook library software on my office computer but now on my home computer at all. I am thinking of reinstalling my software on my home computer. Perhaps there is something corrupted. I can't even see the status of my ebook how much space is left.
4. Is there any way to copy every ebook on my PRS-500 on to my computer or are they there already and I have to click each file in My Books to identify each file ?
5. On my office computer I have two directories for the ereader. One EConnect Reader directory and the other ebook library. In my house I only have ebook library. Is it proper to have two directories ?
6. I can't drag any files from my ereader over to my sd card at work to leave more space on my ereader. Why ?
7. The status button doesn't work on the ereader ebook library only the econnect reader
software.
I will look at your ebooks section later in the week. Thanks for your help. I find it all very
interesting.