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Old 04-20-2014, 04:48 PM   #11
evdberg
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Netherlands
Device: Sony PRS-500, Kindle Paperwhite 3
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Originally Posted by prom king View Post
I'm still using PRS500 on every day basis and with the same battery that I got when I bought the device in 2007 and it works very good although battery is weaker but still manageable.
Great to hear that I am not the only one!

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But now I have a problem. I switched recently on Win7 and it won't recognize the device, it's constantly asking me for drivers. I see that some of you mention that you use Calibre 0.6.29 to access the library. I have 1.33 version and can't find the way to do that so should I switch to the older version?
It depends on what version of the firmware you have. Did you send it to Sony to be upgraded to the latest version? If so, your PRS-500 should present itself as a memory device (like a USB stick). If not, you need to use old versions of either the Sony Reader software or Calibre to access the internal memory.
In this case you can either install the software from the CD that came with the PRS-500, or install the mentioned version of Calibre (although some say 0.6.55 also works). After installing Calibre you can find the needed drivers in the 'driver' folder inside the folder where you installed Calibre (most likely c:\Program Files\calibre).

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I also don't want to use memory stick because I heard on this forum that it drains battery more rapidly.
It thought that is only true for SD-cards. I believe that it is no problem with a 'real' memory stick (Sony's own memory card system).
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