[autolycus]

Hello everyone. This is my first post and i'm still just getting used to my new ereader. I had the good fortune to pick it up from my local electrical store at an 80% discount due to a lack of a lead and packaging. So i bought a cheap USB micro usb cable and plugged it in to my computer and it seems to work fine. I'm slowly getting my head round Calibre and have loaded some books into the reader memory and done some reading.

I'm enjoying the experience, however there seems to be a slight problem with the charging sequence. I can have the reader plugged in for hours and the red light remains on with the "charging battery" screen. During this time, I can transfer books in calibre and see the reader contents in this or the sony reader library app. The only change in the screen is the message 'do not disconnect' when the reader library is open. When i shut the app. the warning disappears.

I can mount or unmount the drive (using 'safely remove hardware') and disconect the lead, but no matter what i do, the red light and the "charging battery" screen remain. This happened the first time i charged the battery from dead/new and in the end i stuck a paper clip in the reset hole and things worked OK from then on. But i don't want to do that now as i'll probably lose some data, and anyway, i can't believe this is what's supposed to happen.

Perhaps i'm doing something wrong. Does anyone know what's going on and how i can fix the problem?

Thanks.

EDIT: one other thing, i don't know if it's relevant, but everytime i plug in the reader, the red light flashes to orange a few times and the photo printing wizard in XP launches.