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Thanks for all of the replies to my questions about MS Word not working with Connect Software.

I contacted tech support today and they said they would have to get back with me about why I was getting an error when trying to drag and drop a .DOC file into my Sony Reader.

I received an email telling me to uninstall and reinstall the software. Did that. No success. I emailed them back and am now waiting to hear what they say.

I have to manually change all of my .DOC files to .RTF instead of simply drag and drop. I own the Textconverter software but it is on another computer, so for now I have to convert one by one until Sony fixes this problem.

Aside from all of that, I love my Sony reader. My first experience reading ebooks was on a Handspring Visor. It was good but reading outdoors was terrible. I like to read while hubby fishes. Then I got an HP IPAQ pocket pc and now have upgraded to the HPIPAQ 2495b. It is better than the handspring but my eyes get very tired. The screen is very small and the battery will only go for about three hours.

So far, I have read a couple of books on the Sony reader and my eyes are happy! I do have to sit next to a lamp indoors, but you have to do that with paper anyway. It took a little while to learn the controls but after the second book I am getting around very well.

As with a lot of others on this list, I think the software needs a lot of improvement. I would like to be able to rate books in my library such as with Media player. Also, I would like to be able to create my own books with TOC links just like the purchased books from Sony connect.

I'm dissappointed that there is no King James Bible on the Sony Website. I have the Bible in RTF format, but it is too large to be able to jump around to specific scriptures. The only way I can see to do that is create a separate "Book" for each book of the Bible. And still that would be a hard way to read the Bible. I think I'll stick with my Bible software on my Pocket PC.