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Originally Posted by Amadeus
Is there any chance of your doing a Windows version, or if not, perhaps you'd like to share the source - I'd be willing to have a shot at creating a suitable device driver.
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IMO it's stupid that Sony have not made this device pop-up as an external USB drive.
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The device does not provide block level access to the storage devices, so this isn't a matter of whipping up a USB storage device driver. Rather one must implement a full filesystem for it.
I've written a Windows NT Filesystem before and it's no picnic. In this case it would be even less of a picnic since the Sony Reader exports a VFS style RPC-over-USB model and that is about 180 degrees out of phase with Windows.
Also, as a memory card reader/writer the Sony Reader makes a pretty poor one since it only supports USB 1.1 and manages to slow that down to about 1/3rd performance. If you need to copy many books, MP3's, pictures onto a memory card for the Sony you'll get much more done quickly via a good quality USB 2.0 memory card device.
Demand for this filesystem has been very low on the Mac, nearly non-existent for Linux and I'd have to think even lower than that for Windows.
Personally I appreciate the Sony Reader not supporting the USB Mass Storage Profile. In Fortune 500 environments UMSP is rapidly becoming
Public Enemy Number One and I'd rather have my Sony with me than checked with security at the front desk (or out baking in the car.)