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Taylor514ce · 09-08-2008, 10:00 AM

I'm preparing for an upcoming trip. Let's load some books on the Sony Reader, shall we?

First of all, let's move some books from the Sony eBook Library to the Reader. Whoops! For some reason, the Library shows titles but the books themselves have disappeared. Why? Who knows? It happens frequently, that's why I make backups. Where is that USB drive? Let's re-import again. Now we have duplicate titles. Click each one, delete the "empty" entries. Back everything up... again. Where was I? Right... move to Reader. Please recognize the Reader...

Next, the Adobe DE book. Fire that software up, register the Reader (again, it seems to forget about it every so often), send to Reader. Hey, that worked. Good.

Ok. Now, I also purchased some MobiPocket books. Open the Mobipocket Reader, get the PID. Mobitools... backup. Now, convert them to LRF. So, start up Calibre, import, convert, send to Reader.

This is normal? Count them. 1, 2, 3... 5 software programs to manage books. Plus the books are everywhere. I don't even know where some programs KEEP their books (neither does some of the software, Sony's in particular seems to "forget" where the books are).

I need the one ring to find them all, and in the darkness bind them.

09-08-2008, 10:00 AM	#1
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	Software Stew I'm preparing for an upcoming trip. Let's load some books on the Sony Reader, shall we? First of all, let's move some books from the Sony eBook Library to the Reader. Whoops! For some reason, the Library shows titles but the books themselves have disappeared. Why? Who knows? It happens frequently, that's why I make backups. Where is that USB drive? Let's re-import again. Now we have duplicate titles. Click each one, delete the "empty" entries. Back everything up... again. Where was I? Right... move to Reader. Please recognize the Reader... Next, the Adobe DE book. Fire that software up, register the Reader (again, it seems to forget about it every so often), send to Reader. Hey, that worked. Good. Ok. Now, I also purchased some MobiPocket books. Open the Mobipocket Reader, get the PID. Mobitools... backup. Now, convert them to LRF. So, start up Calibre, import, convert, send to Reader. This is normal? Count them. 1, 2, 3... 5 software programs to manage books. Plus the books are everywhere. I don't even know where some programs KEEP their books (neither does some of the software, Sony's in particular seems to "forget" where the books are). I need the one ring to find them all, and in the darkness bind them.