Yesterday I received my new ebook reader.
Oh certainly there were options, choices and some were quite decent.
After spending about 10 hrs lurking on this site, I decided: The Sony reader would be the best bet for the money ESP if the new firmware came out.
I opened the box (which was crushed by UPS) and inside I discovered a completely charged and operational prs505.
It cost $265 plus tax and shipping for a total to my door of $313.00
I plugged it in and upgraded the firmware - which had JUST came out. Suddenly my PDFs were going to be completely usable!
What WAS a disappointment was the software.
It just is horrible to use.
I have been copying the books directly. Clean, easy.
The only issue that gets me is that even though all of my PDF's are neatly named (example J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings Collection.pdf), when the books load it into the reader, I get almost useless info, as apparently PDF's have meta tag information that I was unaware of, thus it sometimes is completely wrong.
I managed to find a variety of software that helped me a lot. Vadi's book sorter is crucial. Clone remover is a godsend. Thats it. I tried calibre, ABC AMBER, ebook library, MY ebook library, advanced PDF tools and a host of others.
None seem to be able to use my filenames as metatag info. So much for thinking this would be easy and automatic like for mp3s.
So, I am going to wait til an easy answer comes along, because lord knows I have more things to do (like reading) then to spend hours correcting metatag info.
Now, if only the books posted here in BBeB format were available as one download....
Thanks for all of the help, you didn't know you were helping, but you all did.
Had it not been for the member posts here (from all device owners) I could not have made as good a choice for me as I did.
Proud to be a member.