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Originally Posted by HarryT
To be honest, you really don't need a memory card at all. Reader compresses books in main memory, and in the 90-odd MB of main memory you can store several hundred books. The "flat" file system is such that you really won't want more than that on it, anyway, I promise you  . The only real reason for using a memory card would be if you were a non PC-user, and had to load content directly onto the card, rather than using the Connect software, or if you want to put MP3 files onto the Reader, but I really wouldn't recommend using it as an MP3 player. |
Actually, I was talking about the Reader with my boss and while discussing how many books could be loaded, etc. He pointed the same thing out. My response was setting up collections to keep things organized. I have yet to try this out, but it may be a reasonable way to keep a fairly large collection.
You also forget one genre which could really use the extra storage--manga and graphic novels (being 10+ megs typically).
As an aside, check out page 80 in the owner's manual (both the PDF and the one actually on my Reader show this...), user available memory is written in at approximately 64megs. Maybe they changed their mind pre-production?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're right - the web site is very confusing - last time I looked at it it said that Sony "Supplied software to convert other formats to the Sony e-Book format" or some such nonsense. The situation, as you know, is that the Reader handles formats such as text, RTF, and PDF "natively". There's no conversion.
Congratulations on buying a Reader - I don't think you'll regret it!
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Well,
technically Connect Reader can convert MS Word (DOC) files to RTF for reading. That still really doesn't qualify in my mind as "converting other formats"...
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Originally Posted by Aprilbeginnings
That is what I have been doing, end up spending more time online still than reading.... plus now I am trying to figure out how I found this forum... maybe it was listed in the instructions? I just don't remember LOL..
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Haha, I actually found this place earlier in the day prior to purchase. I was trying to find out what the actual users were saying about the Reader. Of course, once I bought mine, this is where I returned.
I worked earlier today, and upon returning home I decided I was going to get intimate with Book Designer--the learning curve is a bit steep (well, maybe it would have been better if I actually read the help pages). I must say, I'm impressed. It's a bit rough edges here and there, but for a free product (thanks VVV!) doing such a specialized job, it really is tremendously useful.
Ok, I'm now way off topic, so I'll stop here and lurk around in some other posts.