How many Readers are out there?

[NatCh]

Yeah, I have my doubts too, I just wondered if anyone had actually tried it.

[Solotraveller]

Just got mine about a month ago, and I love it! When I got it I made sure to download the latest firmware, and then along came the whole "battery not recharging!" panic. Did a hard reset per instructions I found here, and the problem went away. Drained the battery after using it, rechaged, and I was back to "battery not recharging!" panic again! No firmware upgrade this time, so I figured I had a bad unit. Luckily I came across the soft-reset trick, and it worked fine after that.

So, love my Reader, but I do have a question. After I installed the firmware, did the hard reset reset the unit back to factory defaults (no update)?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Solotraveller

Just got mine about a month ago, and I love it! When I got it I made sure to download the latest firmware, and then along came the whole "battery not recharging!" panic. Did a hard reset per instructions I found here, and the problem went away. Drained the battery after using it, rechaged, and I was back to "battery not recharging!" panic again! No firmware upgrade this time, so I figured I had a bad unit. Luckily I came across the soft-reset trick, and it worked fine after that.

So, love my Reader, but I do have a question. After I installed the firmware, did the hard reset reset the unit back to factory defaults (no update)?

The best way to find out is to ...

1. Turn on the Reader
2. Go back to the main menu
3. Go to the Settings menu
4. Go to About
5. If you see it says Version 1.0.2.01300 then you have the new firmware.

I cannot tell you the version number of the old firmware. But I highly doubt that a hard-reset will downgrade the firmware. That would mean that the Reader would have to be able to store two complete copies of the firmware in memory. One to actually run and one in case of a hard-reset.

[athlonkmf]

Originally Posted by NatCh

Yeah, I have my doubts too, I just wondered if anyone had actually tried it.

just loaded a testfile up with bookdesigner. It didn't recognize the images in the pdf


BTW. i was wondering if there's a changelog for the firmwares somewhere. Would like to see what's "improved"

[NatCh]

I think there probably is a changelog, but it may be in Russian. Isn't there a Readme file in the zips? I don't recall offhand.

I didn't expect BD to handle a PDF, I think you'd have to try it with an RTF or insert the JPGs directly into BD, which would be a bit of a pain.

[athlonkmf]

Originally Posted by NatCh

I think there probably is a changelog, but it may be in Russian. Isn't there a Readme file in the zips? I don't recall offhand.

Sony is writing the changelogs for their firmware in russian????

I didn't expect BD to handle a PDF, I think you'd have to try it with an RTF or insert the JPGs directly into BD, which would be a bit of a pain.

which means BD could use some kind of interface where you can automate things, or an intermediate format that it could read in things
But still, unless BD has some kind of image processing in it, the size of the result would be the big

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by athlonkmf

just loaded a testfile up with bookdesigner. It didn't recognize the images in the pdf

The PDF import for BD is very very simple. It won't load images. What you can try however is ABC Amber PDF Converter and see how that goes for extracting the images. There are other converters out there. Just not easy to find ones that you don't have to pay for.

[NatCh]

Originally Posted by athlonkmf

Sony is writing the changelogs for their firmware in russian????

<tongue in cheek>Yeah, it's all part of their plan to comply with the GPL without giving us real access, or to make sure that folks like igorsk have a leg up on hacking the rascal. </tongue in cheek>

Seriously, though, I thought you were asking about the BD change logs, got a bit confused there. Sorry 'bout that.

[thatsmrskills2u]

I was looking for something like this for most of last year and decided I'd get that Star-e Book thing. By accident I came across PRS-500 yesterday in a Comp USA in New York where I'm on holiday and picked it up immediatly. It's a bit pricey but at the current exchange rate ($300 = £150) plus $50 free book-credit I can't complain.

It's gonna make my life so much easier at University.

[ekbh]

Hey folks, new member here. Just registered here a few minutes ago.

I'm currently on a long business trip in Japan right now, and to help pass the time (too hot, humid and rainy to go sightseeing), I've been reading books.

Unfortunately, the English books here are on the order of $18+. Even for an old paperback! And I've already gone through three in one week. So, I decided to get an e-book reader. Less books to carry back with me.

Thanks to this site, and the helpful comments posted by all you folks, I decided to get the Sony Reader. I ordered it online, had it sent to my sister, and had her mail it across the Pacific. What a pain, but I've got it now!

Boring post, but nice to meet y'all, and thanks for contributing to the site.

Albert.

[yvanleterrible]

Not a boring post, this is the kind of stories we like to hear.

Welcome on board!

[JSWolf]

And you have plenty of good free books here to download to put on the reader to keep you going as well.

Welcome to the site ekbh. Glad you joined us and if you do have any reader issues, feel free to say so. Someone will try to help if possible.

[ekbh]

Thanks folks. I've spent the last twenty minutes going through the e-books here. Great resource!

It's quite ironic, that I'm in Sony's backyard. And yet, I had to order their Reader from a US company (crutchfield), delivered to a US address, and mailed back to Japan. I suppose it makes sense to somebody.

[yvanleterrible]

Yeah! Lawyers!