[bill the smith]

Just out of the box.
Crashed after about 10 minutes - my fault for being so hasty.
Froze.
Got it working again and now seems to be OK.
For me, the main problem was a combination of my impatience and Sony's dodgy software.
They make great hardware but they shouldn't do their own proprietary software.
eBook Library is very limited.
I get "software not responding" all the time.
I seem to have learned the following in the last couple of hours.
1. Be patient: everything takes a long time and there are very few messages or indicators of activity (much, much slower than loading iPod)
2. The most useful indicator when you are loading books is to double click status so that you get a graph in the RH column.
This shows you what is happening to the loading.
Watch this and you will realise that everything happens v slowly.
(I crashed it at the start by unplugging too early).
I am now uploading 45 books (26 meg) which is taking forever. But at least the status graph shows me that there is some progress.

I will keep you posted FWIW.