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It may be that the Reader is only showing you the contents of the first 4GB of the card. The only way to check this is to fill the thing with more than 4GB worth of files and see if they all show up in the Reader's index. You don't have to look at all the pages to do that, by the way, if you put 400* files on it, and it only admits to having say 350* then you know it's not seeing the whole card. We know that's the way it behaves with SD cards over 2GB, but I don't know if anyone's actually tested a Memory Stick this way or not. ![]() *NOTE: numbers colonically generated for example purposes, and may have no bearing on reality. ![]() |
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If they anticipated that a typical user might want to carry around more than a few dozens of books they would have to provide some kind of directory functionality. When you load a few thousand books on the reader it means you have to browse through a few hundred of pages of book list. That is INSANE. Please notice that they advertise 60 or so books you can save in the built-in memory as large number. I am afraid that the envisaged the average-end-user usage scenario was something like - buy Reader (Profit!) - buy a book or two at Connect store (Profit again!) - read the book(s) - buy another book (Profit yet again!) - read the book - (in the meanwhile) look at some of the 10 stored photos (boyfriend, grandchildren, spouse, ...) or perhaps read a shopping list - ... repeat many times ... Yes, I agree with you. There is quite a few things that would improve the functionality for us - geeks, gadet lowers, power users, text hoarders. I personally dislike the way PRS500 handles hefty bunch of rtf files placed on the memory card. I was just pointing out in my previous rant why I think that a firmware update is quite unlikely from the Sony point of view. |
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Love my Sony-505. There are only three features I would like to see in a firmware upgrade:
1) Fix any bugs I am not aware of. 2) The ability to delete files on my reader without hooking it to my computer to do it thru the Connect software. 3) The ability to read Mobipocket format files (PRC non protected). Bob |
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That assumption makes no sense at all. They made the 505 compatible with 10 GIGABYTES of expansion memory. If they didn't plan on having people puts books into that memory, then they should not be in business.
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Either way, Sony made it clear to LOTS of people that it was planning a release of a new firmware. I don't know about the date though, where did the February time frame come from again?
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Even though the Sony will hold 10 gigabytes in its expansion memory, for me the functional and fun aspect of the 505 remains unchanged. Don The above post by me was deleted by me; apparently, I hit a return when I was editing that post, so I went back and just deleted it. |
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I hope they will not forget to release 64 bit driver for 500 or (hope dies last
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Rampant speculation, actually.
It was based on the facts that the 500 launched in October of '96, that its first firmware update was in February '07, and that the 505 launched in October of '07. Naturally those three data points formed an indisputable line of intent to release a firmware update for the 505 in February of '08. (we need a tongue-in-cheek smilie ... I'm not sure what that would even look like) My guess is that they may have intended to put out an update by now, but are likely waiting for Adobe to finish Mobile Digital Editions, now that Adobe has actually started moving on it. ![]() |
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The February '08 time frame came from this long post from earlier this year.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19023 |
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Xenophon, I'm not seeing this difficulty --- spacing is fine for me w/ Zapfino from a .pdf made using Apple's pdf object and viewed on a PC (using Adobe Acrobat Approval 5.0) --- did you have a specific font, size, and Acrobat implementation which exhibited it? The .pdf of Mike Brotherton's _Star Dragon_ which I made and available from www.mikebrotherton.com uses ligatures and displays fine on my PRS-505.
Some of the ligatures in Zapfino in the Mac OS X-generated .pdf were messed up when viewed on my PRS-505, but when I switched to a .pdf made by InDesign, they were fine, so the problem would seem to be w/ how TrueType fonts w/ unusual encodings or more than 256 characters are handled by the reader's .pdf implementation (ID converts embeds the font as CID-keyed). For those who don't have Zapfino, you can see the ligature construction in my TUG2003 paper: http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/.../tb77adams.pdf William |
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I have updated my original post since I just got a reply from the Sony Reader Engineer:
Folks, Sony is working on the FW, and it has been delayed, but I suspect something is coming down the pike shortly. Can't say for sure, May is probably a winning guess. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19023 > Fabian, > > At this time I do not. This is an issue we are working on with > Adobe and want to get it right before releasing. > > Dave |
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