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Originally Posted by AprilHare
I tend to suspect the Sony firmware...
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Yes, a new firmware revision is needed.
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I suspect that It did not occur to anybody at Sony to put "being able to index 10 000 books database" into the software specification.
If they anticipated that a typical user might want to carry around more than a few dozens of books they would have to provide some kind of directory functionality. When you load a few thousand books on the reader it means you have to browse through a few hundred of pages of book list. That is INSANE.
Please notice that they advertise 60 or so books you can save in the built-in memory as large number. I am afraid that the envisaged the average-end-user usage scenario was something like
- buy Reader (Profit!)
- buy a book or two at Connect store (Profit again!)
- read the book(s)
- buy another book (Profit yet again!)
- read the book
- (in the meanwhile) look at some of the 10 stored photos (boyfriend, grandchildren, spouse, ...) or perhaps read a shopping list
- ... repeat many times ...
Yes, I agree with you. There is quite a few things that would improve the functionality for us - geeks, gadet lowers, power users, text hoarders. I personally dislike the way PRS500 handles hefty bunch of rtf files placed on the memory card.
I was just pointing out in my previous rant why I think that a firmware update is quite unlikely from the Sony point of view.