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tdavie · 10-02-2008, 01:31 PM

Hello. I'm having a bit of difficulty getting feeds to work, so I'll describe what I'm doing.

I'm running Calibre .89 on OS X 10.5.5, both natively, and inside of VMWare Fusion on Windows XP Professional.

I will download a feed (say Newsweek, New York Times, USA Today, or Washington Post), both in LRF and EPUB format (separately one after the other if one fails to work), connect up my reader (a 505 purchased about 6 days ago with the July firmware update. I'll then connect my reader, and transfer the feed; sometimes in OS X, and sometimes in Win XP. I'll then unmount the reader and try to view the downloaded/transferred feed. Sometimes the reader will hang briefly, then reboot, and other times it will say invalid page and then reboot. About 20% of the time the feed will display correctly. I've tried transferring the feed using the Sony software, but the same set of phenomena happens.

Otherwise, using purchased and downloaded books is not a problem; just the feeds.

Scratching my head.

Tom

10-02-2008, 01:31 PM	#1
tdavie Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Winterpeg, Manitoba, Canada Device: Sony 505	Having trouble getting feeds to work; willing to help but don't know how Hello. I'm having a bit of difficulty getting feeds to work, so I'll describe what I'm doing. I'm running Calibre .89 on OS X 10.5.5, both natively, and inside of VMWare Fusion on Windows XP Professional. I will download a feed (say Newsweek, New York Times, USA Today, or Washington Post), both in LRF and EPUB format (separately one after the other if one fails to work), connect up my reader (a 505 purchased about 6 days ago with the July firmware update. I'll then connect my reader, and transfer the feed; sometimes in OS X, and sometimes in Win XP. I'll then unmount the reader and try to view the downloaded/transferred feed. Sometimes the reader will hang briefly, then reboot, and other times it will say invalid page and then reboot. About 20% of the time the feed will display correctly. I've tried transferring the feed using the Sony software, but the same set of phenomena happens. Otherwise, using purchased and downloaded books is not a problem; just the feeds. Scratching my head. Tom