PRS-650 My 650 impressions

[John F]

Originally Posted by doreenjoy

I wasn't able to reproduce the crash on a 350. I'm confused when you say it's on your 505 because I thought the 650 was the problem?

I have very limited access to the the 650. It was a gift. I'm assuming since the 650 was crashing so often, and I can create crashes on my 505, they are related.

Also, between steps 11 and 12, I recommend not pressing buttons while the formatting is still going on (while the spinning arrow is present).

I agree that this may alleviate the problem. However, if you reread what I posted, the crash did occur without pushing the button twice quickly.

Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

I must ask what I know is a dumb question ... but why would someone convert an Epub to lrf? It would never occur to me to do that, although granted I'm fairly new to E-reading.

I do this to get a formatting that I prefer. If you do a search in this forum, you will find many people who prefer EPub, and some who like LRF.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why not try out the latest Calibre and see what happens?

I may do this. The thing is, in the past I kept upgrading Calibre for a while, and at some point, I couldn't get the formatting I liked. I found it tedious/time consuming to do install/deinstalls, backing up the database, ... so I settled on the version I currently have.

Originally Posted by elcreative

have you checked the disk that came with your 505... my wife's has Great Expectations on it... in lrf.

How can I check the disk? And I'm not sure the likely hood of it being the disk, wouldn't that imply that the 650 also had a "bad" disk.

And FWIW, I while back, I went thru a round of technical support with Sony, and their ultimate reply was to use EPub.

Again, at this time I am content to live with MY crashes. Normally, they aren't going too happen often: I go through a book once a week, and say it happens every Nth book, so in typical use, every several weeks.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions.

[elcreative]

Disk... shiny round thing, comes free with older eReaders such as 505 and contains 100 free books including Great Expectations!!!

Originally Posted by John F

How can I check the disk? And I'm not sure the likely hood of it being the disk, wouldn't that imply that the 650 also had a "bad" disk.

[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Are there any of the books that are not commercial that you could post here with your settings so we can try it as well?

Jon, did you get a chance to try the LRF I posted? Try adding the book and going through all the font sizes. If it doesn't crash, please try deleting the book and re-adding it and going through the font sizes.

[mediax]

Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

I must ask what I know is a dumb question ... but why would someone convert an Epub to lrf? It would never occur to me to do that, although granted I'm fairly new to E-reading.

The reason I used to do it was to get a justified display on my PRS-505 - it displayed all EPUBs as aligned left side, but implemented full justification in LRFs.