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Originally Posted by kacir
You CAN delete files directly from PRS 500.
try looking for HackBuilder on this site.
One of the hacks is deleting files and copying files from memory to card and vice versa.
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Yah, I know, but it has some caveats to using it, particularly with Collections, which I insist on using.
Sony actually putting it into their firmware is a big step forward is all.
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Originally Posted by ambertape
To me it is sad to note that the upcoming PRS-505 upgrade is for the 505 and not the PRS-500 . It seems to me that SONY should consider the pioneers of the PRS-500 and bring them into the PRS-505 world or give us an incentive to trade in the PRS500 for a PRS-505 and then they will not have to develop a upgrade to the owners of the PRS-500. If SONY does nothing for owners of PRS-500 then it might be an idea to sell my unit, and buy another manufacturer product. It is very important for a manufacturer like SONY to get good publicity and not bad publicity. Why should I show this product to my friends ?
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The obstacle appears to be a hardware one: i.e. reportedly the 500 hardware physically can't support these new functions. As for a trade in scheme, yeah, it would be nice (speaking as a 500 owner myself), but I don't see how a vendor is under
any obligation to upgrade hardware that was sold in good faith. What? should I drag out my old 286 PC and expect IBM to offer me an upgrade on that too? That strikes me as a bit ... presumptuous.
Sure, it would be wonderful if Sony were to do it, but make no mistake: it would be an act of extreme generosity -- Sony has no business need to eat a bunch of money (when they're already in the red on their "flagship" product lines just now) to upgrade folks who bought their generation last product. Especially as it would set a precedent such that we'd all expect them to do the same for the PRS510 or whatever the next one is, and the next one, and the next one ....
I can't think of too many things that would more greatly encourage them to exit the e-book hardware business than this sort of expectation from their customers.
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Originally Posted by mikecook
I've just upgrade the library software, everything went fine, until it asked me to activate the reader. I was already on my last free activation, I kept formatting my HD without de-activating  - and now I can't read any of my old purchases!
I am uninstalling and loading up the older version to see if can get access to de-activate.
I'll let you know how that goes...wish me luck |
If it doesn't work for you, just give them a call and ask them to de-authorize everything except your Reader -- they're usually pretty good about doing it, and it only takes a few minutes ... once you get through the obstacle course they call a phone system.
