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I just tested some more books from the Connect store. Some of them work fine, James Ellroy and other Andrew Vachss titles for example. Still other Andrew Vachss titles have the same problem with page turning in landscape.
I don't know enough about the lrf/lrx format to tell if the ones that cause the long delay have embedded fonts or not.
After I have read the books purchased with the $50 Sony Connect credit I will stick to books from the mobileread upload section and look into formatting other books myself.
Apart from the problems described above my Sony Reader experience has been overwhelmingly positive. Seeing as the purchased books were basically free it would not be fair to hold this minor hiccup against Sony (even though I used the term "incompetence" in the post above which in retrospect seems a bit harsh).
It did, however, harden my resolve to stay away from any DRM'ed content. Last time I purchased DRM content was when I bought some TV episodes from iTunes. Even though my notebook was supposed to be adequate for Fairplay video playback it was not. The video would turn into a slide show regularly. That was quite surprising given that my machine can play two parallel DVB/AVI streams without any such problems.
Cheers,
fryandlaurie
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