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BookJunkieLI · 06-02-2010, 10:26 AM

Hi,

My friend, who is not all that tech-savvy, just bought the Daily Edition PRS-900 and has downloaded the Sony Library software. We played around a little bit with the Library software before I had to leave to come home - she's in Ohio, I'm in New York. We were trying to setup Collections which we did eventually figure out how to do, though it would be very useful if the Help screen had screenshots, but still ran into a couple of issues. I'm not sure if we're just missing a step somewhere or if these are limitations in the software.

1. It doesn't appear that you can import books/files directly into a Collection. It'll let you do it from that screen but it still drops everything into the 'Books' section and you have to manually sort them into the Collection.

2. It appears that you can't create a Collection and add books in the Library software and then just drag and drop it onto the Reader. When we tried to do that the Collection title transferred over but none of the books did. We then had to transfer the books separately and re-sort them into the Collections once they were on the Reader.

3. Any time we added, deleted, moved a book it switched to Thumbnail view even though we'd started out in the line/detail(?) view. Is there anyway to set it to default to the line/detail view automatically? It's very annoying whe you're trying to sort things to constantly have it switch from the thumbnail view when you need details.

This might be a better question for the Calibre forum but is Calibre compatible with Collections? Would it make more sense to just use Calibre to sort and upload files to the PRS-900? I use Calibre myself but since I have a Nook which doesn't have any organizational system on it I'm not sure how compatible/easier to use it would be.

Thanks for the help.

Beth

PS If anyone knows of a detailed user guide for the library software please point me to where it is.

06-02-2010, 10:26 AM	#1
BookJunkieLI Evangelist Posts: 435 Karma: 572984 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle 4, Nook Gl4, Nook STR, REB 1100, Ebookwise 1500,	Newbie questions about Library software Hi, My friend, who is not all that tech-savvy, just bought the Daily Edition PRS-900 and has downloaded the Sony Library software. We played around a little bit with the Library software before I had to leave to come home - she's in Ohio, I'm in New York. We were trying to setup Collections which we did eventually figure out how to do, though it would be very useful if the Help screen had screenshots, but still ran into a couple of issues. I'm not sure if we're just missing a step somewhere or if these are limitations in the software. 1. It doesn't appear that you can import books/files directly into a Collection. It'll let you do it from that screen but it still drops everything into the 'Books' section and you have to manually sort them into the Collection. 2. It appears that you can't create a Collection and add books in the Library software and then just drag and drop it onto the Reader. When we tried to do that the Collection title transferred over but none of the books did. We then had to transfer the books separately and re-sort them into the Collections once they were on the Reader. 3. Any time we added, deleted, moved a book it switched to Thumbnail view even though we'd started out in the line/detail(?) view. Is there anyway to set it to default to the line/detail view automatically? It's very annoying whe you're trying to sort things to constantly have it switch from the thumbnail view when you need details. This might be a better question for the Calibre forum but is Calibre compatible with Collections? Would it make more sense to just use Calibre to sort and upload files to the PRS-900? I use Calibre myself but since I have a Nook which doesn't have any organizational system on it I'm not sure how compatible/easier to use it would be. Thanks for the help. Beth PS If anyone knows of a detailed user guide for the library software please point me to where it is.