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Originally Posted by artelahe
One of my biggest peeves or disappointments is losing access to my reader as soon as the USB is plugged into it in conjunction with a PC connection.
Here comes the wind up for this possibly idiotic question....
I load ebooks via the USB and charge with the wall charger. I am aware that one of the background functions the USB is to recharge the reader on connection (hence the nifty "DO NOT DISCONNECT (on pain of who knows what? Possible brickitudinal state?))!" messages.
So, here's my question:
Is it possible, and safe, to connect the reader to the wall charger and concurrently via the USB for book transfer without killing the reader? Will it cancel out the DO NOT Disconnect message?
My apologies if this is a pc cup-holder type question.
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I don't have a Sony, but as long as you have finished any data transfer, it is fine and dandy to pull the USB plug out of the computer and in to the wall charger.
If you want to be ultra careful, then you eject, or dismount the USB drive from the computer before unplugging it. However, as long as data tranfer is not going on, you don't stand to damage much of anything by unplugging the device.
Even then, all you are really likely to do is really screw up the data that you were attempting to transfer. Highly unlikely that doing that would actually "kill" your ebook reader or any USB device.
I know, I was unplugging them right left and sideways for years before I heard you weren't supposed to DO that.