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daniel_hokkaido · 04-14-2009, 12:26 AM

Hi,

I posted last week about charging issues with my prs 505. Since my reader is fine now ill put it down to quirks or chance. Still, I am curious about why my reader crashed...was it just from low battery? Before yesterday i might have bet fully on this.

However, the previous crash happened again yesterday and my suspicion that it was caused by one specific book was reinforced. I double checked several times, browzing through all of my library and then leaving my player for a while, a every time it was fine until i tried to access the menu for one book. Only one book. Every time my player just froze after i pressed to enter the individual books's menu. Every time.

The book's format was text file which i converted to lrf with calibre. I also tried pasting it into word and exporting as html to calibre...but same deal. My player crashed as soon as i pressed to go to the book.

So in the end i downloaded the book from another source (also as a text format file) and it was no problem. It looked pretty much identical to the original i had had, except i did not mess with the preset font; i left it as is.

I wonder if changing the font of the file in word was the problem all along?

Anyone have a clue?

I have heard some files with rss feeds will crash the player.

04-14-2009, 12:26 AM	#1
daniel_hokkaido Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 22 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: sonyprs 505, pocketbook pro 603	Can one book really crash my reader?! Hi, I posted last week about charging issues with my prs 505. Since my reader is fine now ill put it down to quirks or chance. Still, I am curious about why my reader crashed...was it just from low battery? Before yesterday i might have bet fully on this. However, the previous crash happened again yesterday and my suspicion that it was caused by one specific book was reinforced. I double checked several times, browzing through all of my library and then leaving my player for a while, a every time it was fine until i tried to access the menu for one book. Only one book. Every time my player just froze after i pressed to enter the individual books's menu. Every time. The book's format was text file which i converted to lrf with calibre. I also tried pasting it into word and exporting as html to calibre...but same deal. My player crashed as soon as i pressed to go to the book. So in the end i downloaded the book from another source (also as a text format file) and it was no problem. It looked pretty much identical to the original i had had, except i did not mess with the preset font; i left it as is. I wonder if changing the font of the file in word was the problem all along? Anyone have a clue? I have heard some files with rss feeds will crash the player.