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Old 03-02-2007, 04:36 PM   #16
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Thanks for posting this

I'm not in the USA so hadn't registered at the store. I did it last night and got the $50 credit
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Old 03-03-2007, 12:13 PM   #17
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So what if you can't re-read it in 5 years time? You're not buying it to read in 5 years; you're buying it to read NOW. Most of the things I buy now aren't going to be of much use to me in 5 years, but that doesn't stop me from buying and enjoying them now. I certainly don't think of a book as a "life-long investment". The majority of the books I read, I'll never read again.
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Old 03-03-2007, 12:35 PM   #18
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Then we are very different here.
I like to collect books. I like the idea that I can read any book in my collection whenever I want to, even though I almost never re-read them.
Most of the things I buy will not be of much use for me in 5 years too. However, books are not amongst them.

At least now I see some reasons why people would spend their money on Connect.
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Old 03-03-2007, 01:25 PM   #19
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Old 03-04-2007, 11:56 AM   #20
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Thanks NatCh for the information. I just got my Credit and bought alrady 3 books
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Old 03-05-2007, 08:58 PM   #21
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Thanks for this update. I registered my Reader about a week prior to this $50 credit offer. I emailed Sony and they were kind enough to give me the $50 credit anyways.
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Old 03-06-2007, 06:30 PM   #22
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finally

finally got the credit! I had to go to the onloine chat every day for 5 days, but we finally got the credit the last time I went online to bug them again. ;-)

Now my wife can go ahead and buy some books to see how that works out.

One question, and maybe I should start a new thread, but how long does it normally take to download one of their books? I've been trying to download one of the books she bought for about 20 minutes. This seems like a ridiculous amount of time, but I want to see what other people have experienced.
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Congrats on getting the credit, junkml!

That does seem like a ridiculous amount of time, unless you're connected at ~28.8 kbps, that is.
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Nope, cable modem

I even canceled one download, closed the connect software, then went in to download again. It just seems to sit there.

Well, I'll play around a bit and see what I can find out.

Honestly, I wouldn't even be buying from Sony except for the $50 credit. So it's pretty much an experiment anyway.
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Weird.

The problem seems to be that I can only download one book at a time. After I closed it and just downloaded one book, it worked fine. Then I tried to download a second book, and it just got hung up. So I closed the program, logged back in, and downloaded the next book. It downloaded in seconds.

Seems like they have some issues with their download setup. Oh well, at least we got the books. ;-)
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Old 03-07-2007, 04:09 AM   #26
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Weird.

The problem seems to be that I can only download one book at a time. After I closed it and just downloaded one book, it worked fine. Then I tried to download a second book, and it just got hung up. So I closed the program, logged back in, and downloaded the next book. It downloaded in seconds.

Seems like they have some issues with their download setup. Oh well, at least we got the books. ;-)
I've experienced that on other web sites - they seem to have a limit on the maximum number of connections they'll accept from a single client. Eg, the Baen web site only lets you download two books at once; if you try to start a third download it just hangs until one of the current downloads has finished.
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The problem with the Sony site is that the original download would never complete.

Still, I can get the books downloaded for my wife, that's the main thing.
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Old 01-01-2008, 08:45 PM   #28
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Still, I can get the books downloaded for my wife, that's the main thing.
Thats the only important thing LOL

close program remove usb then reconnect it.

if you running vista re-install in as administrator
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This is the coupon cops, and I'm taking you all to coupon jail, where you will be forced to read books...books about being a cop! Consider this.
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Uh-huh. You two do realize that this thread has been dead for almost a year, don't you?

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