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Mr. Coconut · 10-15-2009, 08:56 AM

I have a prs505, which I love dearly. I have a sizeable collection of texts that I maintain, most of which are scanned archival documents (I am a historian), but also some books I purchased and a collection of journal articles. I use an 8GB SDHC card to accommodate a total of around 520 texts.

For the past few weeks, I have been unable to normally add new texts. I would transfer an article and it would simply not show up in the reader at all. I normally do this via calibre, but I also tried the sony software. With the latter, I have been able to transfer these texts if I do them one by one and even then, sometimes they do not show up.

I have tried several options, including wiping the SD card and transfering the whole library anew: the result of that is invariably that it will take a long time for the reader to index them, but then only shows a portion of the texts I transferred: about half of them. The results are the same using calibre and sony software. I did a soft reset as well as a hard reset, and even simply transferred all the texts manually, to no avail.

I tried using a different card (also 8GB SDHC) with the exact same results. It's driving me crazy. The whole point of owning this thing is so that I can carry a large library of stuff with me.

Any suggestions?

10-15-2009, 08:56 AM	#1
Mr. Coconut Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: PRS505	Prs505 not seeing all books I have a prs505, which I love dearly. I have a sizeable collection of texts that I maintain, most of which are scanned archival documents (I am a historian), but also some books I purchased and a collection of journal articles. I use an 8GB SDHC card to accommodate a total of around 520 texts. For the past few weeks, I have been unable to normally add new texts. I would transfer an article and it would simply not show up in the reader at all. I normally do this via calibre, but I also tried the sony software. With the latter, I have been able to transfer these texts if I do them one by one and even then, sometimes they do not show up. I have tried several options, including wiping the SD card and transfering the whole library anew: the result of that is invariably that it will take a long time for the reader to index them, but then only shows a portion of the texts I transferred: about half of them. The results are the same using calibre and sony software. I did a soft reset as well as a hard reset, and even simply transferred all the texts manually, to no avail. I tried using a different card (also 8GB SDHC) with the exact same results. It's driving me crazy. The whole point of owning this thing is so that I can carry a large library of stuff with me. Any suggestions?