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Quoth · 02-10-2020, 06:20 PM

The JB was fine, fonts lovely, nice having cover screensaver.

The reason that the various programs need the USB networking is that it's used to access the normally inaccessible parts of the filesystem where the files have to be copied to!

GOOD NEWS.

It fixed itself!
I thought it OUGHT to get the 3G time (which BTW uses GPS receivers at each mast to save a bit on Atomic clocks, as do DAB & DTT transmitters, very foolish single point of failure) as it certainly could access Kindle Store.

Anyway I copied on about 30 books using Calibre and kept the "Wireless" on every time I woke it yesterday and today.

I noticed just a short while ago that hitting Menu now gave local GMT. So I tried registering and it worked. It also automatically created the collections on my PW3. I wish Amazon would ASK! Not everyone wants Sync.

Four pages of empty collections (as most of my books are from Gutenberg, or unpublished work I proof!).

Oddly it AUTOMATICALLY has my old device name! ALSO the old send to Kindle address for THAT Kindle. So Amazon simply hides the details when you deregister and restores them when you re-register the same device. It makes sense as you might do it by mistake.

Even registered there is nowhere in the GUI to even set local time as there is with the B008 Keyboard FW: 3.4.3

In future I'll loan my Kobo Touch or Nook Simple Touch, something which can't be blacklisted nor needs to be deregistered.

02-10-2020, 06:20 PM	#28
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,322 Karma: 105899727 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	The JB was fine, fonts lovely, nice having cover screensaver. The reason that the various programs need the USB networking is that it's used to access the normally inaccessible parts of the filesystem where the files have to be copied to! GOOD NEWS. It fixed itself! I thought it OUGHT to get the 3G time (which BTW uses GPS receivers at each mast to save a bit on Atomic clocks, as do DAB & DTT transmitters, very foolish single point of failure) as it certainly could access Kindle Store. Anyway I copied on about 30 books using Calibre and kept the "Wireless" on every time I woke it yesterday and today. I noticed just a short while ago that hitting Menu now gave local GMT. So I tried registering and it worked. It also automatically created the collections on my PW3. I wish Amazon would ASK! Not everyone wants Sync. Four pages of empty collections (as most of my books are from Gutenberg, or unpublished work I proof!). Oddly it AUTOMATICALLY has my old device name! ALSO the old send to Kindle address for THAT Kindle. So Amazon simply hides the details when you deregister and restores them when you re-register the same device. It makes sense as you might do it by mistake. Even registered there is nowhere in the GUI to even set local time as there is with the B008 Keyboard FW: 3.4.3 In future I'll loan my Kobo Touch or Nook Simple Touch, something which can't be blacklisted nor needs to be deregistered. Last edited by Quoth; 02-10-2020 at 06:24 PM.