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Originally Posted by rasp1331
Thanks for the quick reply!
The SD card surely doesn't work, the first time I inserted it the wrong way round, and though *it seemed* that nothing broke, now inserting the cards the right way under XP explorer hangs until I remove the card, under linux and OS X the card shows up as unformatted (it is formatted FAT32 in fact), and when trying to format it fails with an I/O error.
Fortunately I solved the lookup problem, it turned out that for the language metadata mobipocket creator used the default language in XP, which was hungarian, so i guess the cybook was looking for hungarian dictionary. Now setting it to english everything works as expected.
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Well, what may have happened is one of the contacts within the SD card slot is probably broken. That wouldn't prevent the locking mechanism from holding the SD card in place, but would prevent you from accessing the SD card. You can either send the Cybook back, learn to live without any firmware updates or replace the SD card slot yourself.
Sorry to say, but replacing it yourself would require you to open up the Cybook, unsolder the old slot and solder a new slot in its place. You're definitely not talking a "simple" task. And that would void any warranty left on your Cybook.
Sending it back will probably cost you between $100 and $150, plus any shipping as this is a "user-caused" failure. Not wonderful for your pocketbook, but you'd most likely get a swap-out for a newer 512MB model. That would be an advantage.
Until you can decide which of those two other options to pursue, best to enjoy the Cybook with firmware build 476.
Derek