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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
you might be right. 3 or 4 of them look like they're just gibberish. i mean "De Ontvoering van Alfred Heineken (Uittreksel)" ? "Der Täuscher (Leseprobe)" ?? come on.  |
I, too, bought my PRS-600 from B&HVideo (on-line: impressive outfit!!) - necessary because Sony Australia has never done eBooks and doesn't plan to (so I'm told by the support desk here). I bought a Valentine's Day bundle: red reader + a beaut red cover with a light + a voucher code for a FREE eBook from the Sony shop. "The Heart Speaks". Sounds like...Valentine's Day Mush? Errm...it's written by a cardiologist.
Seems we got the same sample eBooks, though. I *can* read German and French but, well, those titles don't inspire, exactly! I read the whole 44 pages of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sampler, though. It's been decades since I read that book originally and I *am* tempted to go back to it, via eBook.
Getting to the point of my posting a reply, I tracked through this thread because its original theme seemed related to dysfunction in the USB interface. I, too, experienced some oddities which were threatening to drive me [more] bonkers. But it was not *loss* of the USB connection, it was total hangup of the Reader Library software when trying to "disconnect" using the software button, or on starting a Synch, that would leave the device still connected but not visible to the system (WinXP SP3) as a connected device. Ugly.
Then I discovered Calibre. Disabling the Sony library software launcher in the Registry and using Calibre to maintain the library has solved that problem altogether. It has an ePub validator, too, that might be useful for some of the things I'm into. It does look as though the USB problem (or that one, at least) is firmware/software related. Unfortunately, Check for Updates indicates I do have the latest version of both, so it will be interesting to see what transpires when the promised updates come along.
Cheers,
Helen