[vxf]

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

Thanks, vxf. Your experiences sound similar to mine. I didn't have any crashes, but everytime I switch into the Books category of the library it is very slow to refresh. I get a frustrating spinning circle for several seconds. I assume that's because my library was hundreds of books.

When I first installed Reader, it detected that I already has Reader Library and asked if I wanted to import. I said no since I was worried about creating duplicates of stuff and didn't want to risk anything that might corrupt the Reader Library software. So maybe starting clean is the way to go.

You can have both the old and new software installed. However I don't think that Sony will maintain the old one and soon any link to it will disappear from their website. My impression is that they have created the new software to reflect their shift to a more wireless ecosystem. Their table Reader app looks very similar to the new desktop software also from pictures.

Now I am kind of worried about transferring annotations. At least I still have them on my device and could wirelessly sync between my 950 and Mac. That's not an option if you have a 650 or other non-Wifi model. I wonder if you could copy annotation files from the application folders somehow?

I have both pieces of software installed. I wonder if that's why it's crashing so often....

Regarding annotations - I have no idea how to sync them, wired or not. I have a 950 - and all my annotated files are in an SD card in the 950. I don't dare plugging in my 950 with that software open - because I had to wipe my 350. But I did try to transfer files over using my 350 - I uploaded them first using the old software - and it wouldn't do it. The 'sync' feature does not allow me to sync files that are NOT on the desktop library to start with. In other words, I have not yet figured out how to use the 'sync' app to transfer a file from the device to the desktop library.

In other words - when i select which folders to sync, it allows me only selecting folders that are on the desktop library. But I can't sync stuff that is on my reader to start with. So I have no way to force it to import an annotated file.

Also, note that I did use the option to import stuff from the local library when installing the software. As a matter of fact it worked great - but it did not import annotations. It imported all my PDFs, but not the highlights, notes, annotations, etc.

I did think about trying to copy the notes over manually. But I could not figure our where the new software stores them. I even made some new annotations - but could not find them on my PC. Also, the new annotations were not automatically imported in the old software - which makes me suspect the two use different databases, or at least different paths.

Also, I noticed that the new software (according to documentation) is supposed to store everything under 'My Documents/My Ebooks'. Well, half of my files, after importing from the old library, are there. No idea where the other half are stored. Usual SONY mess....

Anyone with suggestions... I am all ears. There has GOT TO be a way to import old annotations in here...