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Yeah, check that little slider on the SD card. It's amazing how easy it is to accidentally write-protect one of those things.
It might make some sense to put the 505 back on the list explicitly, though. Despite the fact that those fools at Sony discontinued that model, there's a thriving market in them on eBay and other aftermarket sources. People who don't want touch screens, don't want to squint at a 300, and can't fit a 900 in their pockets, are snapping up all the 505's they can find, and a lot of those used ones come without their Sony software CD, so their new owners are potential calibre users.
I really can't figure out what Sony was thinking. A lot of people just plain don't like touch screens. I know someone whose skin chemistry dissolves them. I read while I'm eating (if you had to eat my cooking, you'd want a distraction too!) and I eat a lot of sandwiches and other finger food. But the only non-touch-screen models Sony now sells are too big or too small. The friend with the corrosive skin just bought a 505 off of eBay because of that (I'd better check to see if he picked the right install option). What kind of company (other than Microsoft, of course: XP vs. Vista) discontinues the product their customers REALLY want to buy and leaves them with alternatives they don't really want?
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