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HEC · 10-19-2009, 09:04 AM

Hi.

First of all - THANKS for a great product. It's usefull once you'll reach a certain limit of books to manage them all both on your PC as well as in your reader.

Now to my problem I have - I've used calibre (0.6.17 but upgraded today to 06.18) to test 20 News Feeds over 3 days (in total 59 news, 1 was just for 2 days) with a bit mixed up results for me newly aquired PRS-505.

Calibre is all set to defaults with output to Sony Reader (LRF) and it's mamanging my collections just fine. However - 9 of 20 News feeds fail to open on my reader and always cause it to reboot - I've tried putting them to internal memorry as well as to both cards (MS & SD) with the same result. They'll indeed open fine within the Calibre itself. My Reader is customized with PRS Customizer 1.04 (UK Version) with custom Fonts, Icons, Languages, Logo, to display time, Personal details and to shutdown via Enter button but I don't think this is causing the problems as hundreds of other and much larger (in file size) books works just fine.

See bellow a full list of all 20 feeds together with file size and page count and indications which are failing. They're all from October 18 (automatic batch at midnight). In general - LARGER (in file size) News books tend to fail with only exception of Telegraph.co.uk (4.9 MB) wich seems to work just fine despite it's larger file size. All the Fetch News Recepies were used as supplied by default.

NAME - File size in MB - Pages - Working Yes / No
***************************************
CNN - 1.8 - 430 - NO
darknet - 0.1 - 38 - Yes
Fudzilla - 0.9 - 378 - NO
Glasgow Herald - 0.0 (it fails to actually READ the feed) - 6 - Yes (It's empty though)
London Review of Books - 0.2 - 166 - Yes
NASA - 0.3 - 272 - Yes
New Scientist - 1.3 - 701 - NO
Newsweek - 0.5 - 149 - Yes
ScienceDaily - 0.3 - 208 - Yes
securitywatch - 0.1 - 40 - Yes
Slashdot.org - 7.5 - 3,672 - NO
Telegraph.co.uk - 4.9 - 744 - Yes
The BBC - 8.9 - 2,285 - NO
The Daily Mail - 13.6 - 1,539 - NO
The Guardian - 2.9 - 494 - NO
The Scotsman - 0.5 - 379 - Yes
USA Today - 1.1 - 521 - NO
Wikinews - 0.2 - 94 -Yes
Wired.com - 5.2 - 629 - NO
zdnet - 0.2 - 50 - Yes

So - in general the large files with more pages tends to fail to load / cause the reader to Reboot (with above mentioned exception of Telegraph). Any advice? Thanks.

10-19-2009, 09:04 AM	#851
HEC Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: PRS-505	Problem with some News Feeds ... Hi. First of all - THANKS for a great product. It's usefull once you'll reach a certain limit of books to manage them all both on your PC as well as in your reader. Now to my problem I have - I've used calibre (0.6.17 but upgraded today to 06.18) to test 20 News Feeds over 3 days (in total 59 news, 1 was just for 2 days) with a bit mixed up results for me newly aquired PRS-505. Calibre is all set to defaults with output to Sony Reader (LRF) and it's mamanging my collections just fine. However - 9 of 20 News feeds fail to open on my reader and always cause it to reboot - I've tried putting them to internal memorry as well as to both cards (MS & SD) with the same result. They'll indeed open fine within the Calibre itself. My Reader is customized with PRS Customizer 1.04 (UK Version) with custom Fonts, Icons, Languages, Logo, to display time, Personal details and to shutdown via Enter button but I don't think this is causing the problems as hundreds of other and much larger (in file size) books works just fine. See bellow a full list of all 20 feeds together with file size and page count and indications which are failing. They're all from October 18 (automatic batch at midnight). In general - LARGER (in file size) News books tend to fail with only exception of Telegraph.co.uk (4.9 MB) wich seems to work just fine despite it's larger file size. All the Fetch News Recepies were used as supplied by default. NAME - File size in MB - Pages - Working Yes / No *************************************** CNN - 1.8 - 430 - NO darknet - 0.1 - 38 - Yes Fudzilla - 0.9 - 378 - NO Glasgow Herald - 0.0 (it fails to actually READ the feed) - 6 - Yes (It's empty though) London Review of Books - 0.2 - 166 - Yes NASA - 0.3 - 272 - Yes New Scientist - 1.3 - 701 - NO Newsweek - 0.5 - 149 - Yes ScienceDaily - 0.3 - 208 - Yes securitywatch - 0.1 - 40 - Yes Slashdot.org - 7.5 - 3,672 - NO Telegraph.co.uk - 4.9 - 744 - Yes The BBC - 8.9 - 2,285 - NO The Daily Mail - 13.6 - 1,539 - NO The Guardian - 2.9 - 494 - NO The Scotsman - 0.5 - 379 - Yes USA Today - 1.1 - 521 - NO Wikinews - 0.2 - 94 -Yes Wired.com - 5.2 - 629 - NO zdnet - 0.2 - 50 - Yes So - in general the large files with more pages tends to fail to load / cause the reader to Reboot (with above mentioned exception of Telegraph). Any advice? Thanks. Last edited by HEC; 10-19-2009 at 09:07 AM.