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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
One other thing I forgot to mention for prospective buyers: be *really* careful what claims you take on as factual from the salesperson. The one who sold me my Story, friendly and bright as she was, was convinced that the Story had Wi-Fi connectivity
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You got the version with no Wifi?!
That explains the $71 off then..... (nah, just kidding.
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You're spot on with the summary of the salesepeople at Hardly Normal's. Every single thing the first guy told me about the Story was incorrect. Then the second time I went for a look the guy assured me he knew about the machine, but then undermined his claim by having to ask somebody else how to turn it on. It always pays to do your own research.
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The only way to bring it back is to unplug the device and plug it back in and wait for it to recognise the PC again. USB connections are prone to damage and degradation of data throughput rates by frequent plugging and unplugging, so this is not an ideal arrangement.
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My work around for that (which is handy for all the gear I have) is to use a short USB cable that stays permanently plugged into a USB port on the desktop machine. All the frequent use stuff gets used on that cable - thumb drives, cameras, the Story, etc. If the socket ever gets dodgy it will only mean replacing a few bucks worth of cable, not losing the use of a port on the machine.
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Third issue (for a device I haven't actually used yet!) may seem a small one, but in one word it's: folders. On my PC I like to store my e.books in folders according to genre, and then within that folder by author. It's my file-management equivalent of the Dewey system. But the Story doesn't do folders. You have one folder on the device -- prosaically titled "Books" -- into which all your e.books get loaded, and then the Story will sort them alphabetically for the menu. To sort them by any other method requires any genre coding or keyword to be included in the title of the file itself; but if you include the genre and author in the file name, the actual name of the book likely disappears off the right-hand end of the menu item, never to be seen again. A little primitive, I'm thinking, especially in a device dedicated to making books accessible.
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That bugged me initially, but now it seems like a reasonable prompt to limit the number of books on there at any one time to 5 or 10, which is more than enough for my needs. I find it much better to do all the cataloguing, sorting and storing on the computer - it's just faster, clearer, more versatile, and generally better at the job than the readers I've seen.
Cheers,
Chris
And Myf's team won tonight too....
