[BobVA]

I've been playing with the Reader for a couple of days now and it's a tidy bit of kit. How did I live without this?

I was pleasantly surprised that the Connect software, although spartan, runs pretty well compared to the infinite versions of Sonic Stage I'd been through with MD's.

What I was a bit disappointed about, though, was the lack of a hierarchical (e.g. folder based) file system on the Reader. That practically rules out the possibility of carrying a large number of books, since it would take all day to page to the correct one on the selection menu. I've got about 120 books / stories on mine now, and it's a chore to switch between them.

Probably not an issue if you load up five novels you then front-to-back, top-to-bottom, but it does discourage hopping between fiction books or carrying a large number of "random access" references with you.

The "collections" construct looked like a start (but it doesn't support nesting) however for some weird reason the Reader won't allow collections to be located anywhere but in the Readers internal memory. So that's not much help.

Hope they change their minds on this on the next firmware revision.