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fdp · 12-08-2006, 02:43 AM

Alright, after a little time with my reader (a few thousand pages in) I've come to two conclusions:

1.) That I love the reader.

2.) That I absolutely hate the CONNECT software, and how insanely hard it is to load my own content onto the reader.

On the second issue, I would like to point something out to my fellow Reader users. It's called the "Librie Toolbar" I found out about it on this forum. It was released for the Japanese market years ago. Why isn't there an English/Spanish/French... Reader version of it available? Why is it that Sony somehow forgot to include even pre-existing software with this product? Shouldn't we, after parting with our $350 for what is otherwise a great device be frankly mad as hell that they are trying to corral people onto their buggy store?

It's not the goal of this post to vent, but I think that frankly we all need to put pressure on Sony. They gave us a great product, and we should be thankful for that, but we did pay them for it. What would it take for them to translate the Toolbar? Not much. What would it take for them to add the ability to edit catagory in the toolbar (or CONNECT for that matter)?

RTF picture support would be great, but this is something they can do easily, cheaply, and quickly. The impetous should not be on us to develop our own software. Anyone else feel this way?

-Joel

12-08-2006, 02:43 AM	#1
fdp Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2006 Device: Sony PRS500	Not trying to start an uprising... but... Alright, after a little time with my reader (a few thousand pages in) I've come to two conclusions: 1.) That I love the reader. 2.) That I absolutely hate the CONNECT software, and how insanely hard it is to load my own content onto the reader. On the second issue, I would like to point something out to my fellow Reader users. It's called the "Librie Toolbar" I found out about it on this forum. It was released for the Japanese market years ago. Why isn't there an English/Spanish/French... Reader version of it available? Why is it that Sony somehow forgot to include even pre-existing software with this product? Shouldn't we, after parting with our $350 for what is otherwise a great device be frankly mad as hell that they are trying to corral people onto their buggy store? It's not the goal of this post to vent, but I think that frankly we all need to put pressure on Sony. They gave us a great product, and we should be thankful for that, but we did pay them for it. What would it take for them to translate the Toolbar? Not much. What would it take for them to add the ability to edit catagory in the toolbar (or CONNECT for that matter)? RTF picture support would be great, but this is something they can do easily, cheaply, and quickly. The impetous should not be on us to develop our own software. Anyone else feel this way? -Joel