Thanks to Kovid Goyal, the Sony Reader’s very own terrible software (iTunes wannabe) can very soon be decommissioned from my software collection. The libprs500 project, multi-platform solution written in Python works very well and allows to move data between Sony and your Mac / Linux / Windows. The UI is actually pretty decent, considering that [...]
Archive for the ‘sony reader’ category
BOTD: The Reader
2007/09/22Today’s Blog of the Day is “The Reader”. Everything about ebooks and readers – all the stuff I like. See at http://wowio.wordpress.com/ Here I discovered that Sony is assumably preparing new version of reader – PRS 505. From the changes that should be included, none is IMHO really so important. The memory capacity of the [...]
Experiment with Sony Reader battery life
2007/09/19After returning from holidays with completely drained PRS 500 (see field test blog entry), I have decided to test what is the battery life of the fully charged reader without any usage at all. It was easy as I was pretty busy after being away 3 weeks. The reader was fully charged on 29th of [...]
Field test of Sony eReader
2007/09/17One of the many gadgets I have packed for the summer vacation was of course Sony Reader and SD card with nice selection of texts. It was fresh and fully charged, so I assumed that I will be well prepared for the gaps in program during the following three weeks ahead of us and for [...]
Sony eReader – charging problem fixed ?
2007/08/06With the latest software update (I am now on 1.0.3), one of the issues to be fixed was the “charging indicator behaviour”. Looks like it was indeed the software bug. After upgrade, the indicator jumped to full 4 bars and stayed there. Beforehand, I had usually only 3 bars regardless how long it was charged. [...]
Strange charging behaviour of Sony Reader
2007/06/04Despite pretty impressive battery life – which is btw *nowhere* in the range of advertised 7500 page turns – over period of few months I have noted that the charging of the reader behaves kind of funny. Sometimes, even after being plugged-in for 24 hours, the battery indicator stubbornly stays on two squares out of [...]
Converting eBooks to Sony Reader format
2007/03/22Since yesterday, I made nice progress in solving my issues with content creation for PRS500 and it’s readability. There are several ways how to proceed: The simplest is to download Book Designer. It is free for non-commercial use and current version 5.0 Alpha does the job very well. It allows you to load source in [...]
Sony eBook Reader – software updated
2007/03/21After few weeks, I have got back to actually using my PRS500 again and I have finished the books loaded on the device. When I have connected the reader, first the CONNECT software as well as the PRS500 downloaded the updates. The firmware in reader is up to version 1.0.02.0130 from 1.0.00.21081 and should bring [...]
More on Sony Reader
2007/01/27I have been living with my Sony eReader for almost a month now and managed to read about two full books. If not the time crush in biometric project, I would have probably read much more than just two books – nevertheless, I do have some real life experience with the device. First – the [...]
Sony eReader – first impressions
2007/01/03I have got my eReader on 30th December, so after few days of playing with it, here are first impressions. I managed to read one book and played with it quite a bit, but I am still learning. The quality of the display and “electronic paper” look and feel is great. It actually looks like [...]
