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Success, I think
Nov. 18th, 2009 08:47 amMy sad, sad tale of woe with my eReader has finally come to an end. I think.
Obviously, the Sony eLibray and Vista hate each other with a burning passion and just refused to cooperate at all. So I uninstalled on the new machine and loaded the eLibrary up on the Frankenputer. The old version and not the updated 3.01whatever version. That meant transferring all my favorite fic from the new machine to the old, but at least it gave me the opportunity to organize it a little better. Then, I held my breath and synced the reader itself.
But, nothing is ever that easy in my universe and I wound up with double everything on the goofy thing. There's no delete key anywhere on this thing. You'd think if you truly hated some book, that you wouldn't want to use up valuable memory and that a delete key would be really handy. So, I called up the PDF manual, yes, I DO read the directions occasionally, and way down near the bottom is a little something called "Format Internal Memory". "Hmm, says I. Surely that is similar to formating floppy discs from way back and will wipe the slate clean, right?" And lo and behold, that's exactly what it did. Now my reader is pristine and freshly loaded with all my collections organized in a neat and orderly fashion and I'm back to feeling the new love I felt when I first bought the damn thing.
Until Frankenputer crashes.
Obviously, the Sony eLibray and Vista hate each other with a burning passion and just refused to cooperate at all. So I uninstalled on the new machine and loaded the eLibrary up on the Frankenputer. The old version and not the updated 3.01whatever version. That meant transferring all my favorite fic from the new machine to the old, but at least it gave me the opportunity to organize it a little better. Then, I held my breath and synced the reader itself.
But, nothing is ever that easy in my universe and I wound up with double everything on the goofy thing. There's no delete key anywhere on this thing. You'd think if you truly hated some book, that you wouldn't want to use up valuable memory and that a delete key would be really handy. So, I called up the PDF manual, yes, I DO read the directions occasionally, and way down near the bottom is a little something called "Format Internal Memory". "Hmm, says I. Surely that is similar to formating floppy discs from way back and will wipe the slate clean, right?" And lo and behold, that's exactly what it did. Now my reader is pristine and freshly loaded with all my collections organized in a neat and orderly fashion and I'm back to feeling the new love I felt when I first bought the damn thing.
Until Frankenputer crashes.
