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Originally Posted by daredevil22r
What can I do to make sure everything is running the way it's supposed to? also, are there any improvement hacks out there? Since I'm sure it's a first generation reader, there has to be ways to improve on it.
Thanks in advance. Hope I can learn alot from this club. I really need to read more and this will help.
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Welcome daredevil22r
For THE hack see Hack Builder at
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=hack+builder .
Hack called "delete books" can cause problems if you delete a book that is a part of the collection. You can create collection using only the original Sony Library program.
Download program called bookdesigner.
Look for software called calibre - it is vastly better than the original sony Library program.
You can use it to manage and convert your books and for loading the books to your Reader. Even on Mac or Linux (unlike that sorry excuse for a software called Sony library)
Also see our wiki for tips for conversion software, places to get and buy books, ...
Look at the link at the top of this very page called E-Books. Our members have contributed many thousands lovingly formated e-books. Most of them Project Gutemberg stuff and other legally available books.
Download some books (look for BBeB or lrf or lrs files - those are native to Sony Reader) and load them into your reader using cable and Sony software. Unlike the newer models you will not see your connected reader as an USB disk.
Also try downloading or creating some rtf files and load them up. You can find many free SciFi books in rtf format (and many other DRM-free formats) on
www.baen.com in their free library. They sell the books and the free library is to hook you up. Beware! Very addictive stuff! ;-)
Try pdf file. Create one formatted for page 90x120mm. A4 pdf files are almost unusable. You can embed the fonts to pdf file to display non-english texts.
Repeat the process using card reader and SD card. PRS500 only recognizes files on cards up to 2GB (or something like that - try looking at the old threads).
Repeat the process using Memory stick card.
Do not put too many books at the card. No more that several hundred. When you insert a card with more than thousand books the reader becomes *very* unresponsive.
Be aware that if you load the file to the reader using SD card or memory stick the reader has to look through the files and catalog them. It can take loooong time. Many minutes. That is normal. Also when you open a file that was transferred to the reader using the card the reader has to paginate the file and that can take a long time. Next time when you open the book it will be very fast.
The reader should work on a single charge several weeks or many thousands pages (or combination of those two). Loading a card with many books or opening many freshly loaded books (repaginating) eats battery quickly.
When the battery is completely drained you can not charge it using usb cable you have to use charger. You can only charge the reader using the USB cable if the computer has installed the Sony Library Software. I know. That is very stupid.
... and one more thing ...
Come here (to the Mobileread forum) often