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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I hate epub (although I like the idea of it). But I hold out hope that soon publishers will realize that the formatting of their ebooks is as important for marketing as the quality of the paper, fonts, and cover art were for pbooks and will therefore pay more attention to it. And the publishers in turn will make vendors of readers (like Sony) pay some more damn attention to their lousy, stinking firmware.
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Amen to that. I've spent the last 3 days rebuilding my library within Reader Library (yes, I know I can use Calibre, and I do, but it doesn't allow for annotations which I use rather extensively) because the software failed to launch. No matter what hoops I jumped through, I could not get the stupid thing to run. Programming decent software is not that hard. If we could do it in the '80s with machine code, they should be able to do it better with the advanced languages they have now. At the same time, I rebuilt my library in Calibre. I was running an older version on my kitchen laptop because I prefer the lrf format to epub and the newer version (6) does not support lrf the way it used to but was still running the newer version on my studio laptop. I've finally uninstalled the newer version and reinstalled the older on my studio laptop so that I can finally have everything consolidates. I feel so much more organized now so I guess there was a silver lining in all this after all.
As it turns out, I was able to get my computer to recognize my reader by shutting down the device, pushing reset and turning the reader on. Thankfully, I did not have to do a hard reset which would have erased all of the ebooks on my reader for which I did not have a back-up thanks to a faulty Memory Stick (I did run out yesterday to purchase another SD card to use as my new back-up). Perhaps 2010 will turn out to be a better year than I thought it would.
