Yeah, I was going to suggest using one of the *dumb* USB chargers I've seen that's become so popular. I actually picked one up just in case I needed to charge something that only came with a USB cable (I have a Cube MP3 player that's pretty small, but only came with a friggin USB-to-headphone jack that needs to be charged this way). Haven't tried it with the Reader, but I may just to test it out. Why would it need to register a PC with Connect software to be able to accept power? Is this some limitation imposed by the underlying OS? Kinda strange, not to mention they would've had to coded it in there during dev, course Sony's done worse things.
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