I have had problems with some big files, and I can't predict it. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. Huh.
I went and got Calibre and put it in. Then I edited all the author names and some tags. This was frustrating, as I would double-click the field to highlight it, and it would un-highlight without warning, and then interpret my unfinished typing as a reason to change the field order or scroll up or something. I cursed a lot, and finally adopted the expedient of typing each name in TextEdit and pasting them in, which went a little faster. It didn't do what I expected, which would have been to let me make the changes to my library and then update the Sony from it. I ended up doing everything in bulk, first deleting all the files on the Sony and then uploading them again.
I guess that's about all I needed from the Reader software. I can get Google books from Google, and those were pretty much the only things I got from them for free. Since I've formatted a number of books for the reader, some time I should make a list and send them to folks who might want them.
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Reading, writing, plant photography, and the small details of my life, with digressions into science and computing.
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Date: 2010-09-05 11:19 pm (UTC)I went and got Calibre and put it in. Then I edited all the author names and some tags. This was frustrating, as I would double-click the field to highlight it, and it would un-highlight without warning, and then interpret my unfinished typing as a reason to change the field order or scroll up or something. I cursed a lot, and finally adopted the expedient of typing each name in TextEdit and pasting them in, which went a little faster. It didn't do what I expected, which would have been to let me make the changes to my library and then update the Sony from it. I ended up doing everything in bulk, first deleting all the files on the Sony and then uploading them again.
I guess that's about all I needed from the Reader software. I can get Google books from Google, and those were pretty much the only things I got from them for free. Since I've formatted a number of books for the reader, some time I should make a list and send them to folks who might want them.