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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
If you and your sister want partially-overlapping libraries (that is, if you like books by Austen and Baum, and your sister likes Baum and Cooper, each of you can assign them tags in calibre ("mine" and "hers", perhaps) and look only at the books that are tagged "hers" but not "mine", for instance.
External chargers are better than USB because they're faster, they don't interfere with reading your books (when you plug a USB cable into a Sony Reader, it expects books and goes into transfer mode, even if it's just a USB power brick), and they're the only thing that can charge a Reader with a totally flat battery. I have an actual Sony charger, and the thing is rated at 2 amps. For such a little device, my 505 can be awfully hungry! Incidentally, do not plug the Reader into an unpowered USB hub, or it will try to power the hub and drain its battery.
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Thanks. The tags options sounds great - will try that. I'm going to get an external charger for sure. But what is an unpowered USB hub? Is it okay to charge the reader via the usb ports at the side of a laptop or on the computer? (I sound like a complete nut but I don't know much about gadgets).