PRS-600 Problem with PRS-600

[Pinecone]

This may be a issue with Calibre.

But I gave my 600 to my wife when I got my PRS-650.

I set up Calibre (0.7.45) on her system (Win7 Pro) and tried to walk her through adding a book. It hosed the reader. As in it would hang on trying to boot up and even if shut off (which was NOT easy) the battery would go dead in hours. So finally I did a hard reset and got it working. Loaded books back on using my working copy of Calibre. Everything is fine.

So last night, I try to add some newly purchased books and a few I forgot on the first pass.

At first, Calibre would not see the reader. Finally it saw the reader. Then it would hang when trying to update the meta data. And finally errored out with a device communications problem. I rebooted and tried again.

And then it would hang at 99% in getting the book list from the reader. Tried several times, same thing. But after each try the reader on the books already on it were fine.

So in frustration, I did another hard reset, and then Calibre worked fine to talk to the reader and upload all the books.

So, just now, I hook it up the computer again, and it gets the book list off the reader, but it is not sending the metadata, it says Working, Progress is "Unavailable", and the time is now up to over 7 minutes.

I fired up the Sony Library software, and it sees the reader, all the books and collections. I did not try to move anything to the reader, as I did not want to screw up the metadata file on it.

Anyone ever seen this before?