Problems sideloading epub to PRS 300

[Gregg Bell]

I only had three books on the ereader. Anyway, I hooked the ereader up to the computer with a usb cord. (I'm using Linux as my OS.) I mounted the ereader. I opened the folder to where the other ebooks were and pasted the new one. I unmounted the ereader. I uplugged the ereader from the usb cord.

The ereader had the revolving wheel going in the middle showing that it was downloading (I forget exactly what it said--it might have been a different term). I waited and waited for it to stop--but it didn't.

I'd had a similar problem with a different PRS 300 putting a book on there via Calibre. (It got permanently stuck in the downloading mode and I had to return it.) So I figured, here we go again.

I plugged the ereader into the AC adapter and did a few re-sets but to no avail. Then after about twenty minutes it stopped downloading.

I checked the ereader. It was different/funky-looking. First of all it showed I had 728 books. And the the three books that had been there were gone. The new book was broken up into files or something. I am able to read it, but obviously something went very wrong.

Any idea as to what might have happened?

And I'm a little gun-shy of dealing with it now. (I really like it!) So any suggestions as to what to do now? Delete the book from the ereader? Do something different in the sideloading process? Use Calibre to put other books on there? Those sort of things.

Thanks.