[Rsix]

update: THANKS.

Man I feel like such a noob. I consider myself pretty PC savy, but that was kicking my ass. It's fixed and working now.

btw...so far I'm LOVIN' my Ipaq 2215 from Santa.

[Rsix]

update: THANKS.

Man I feel like such a noob. I consider myself pretty PC savy, but that was kicking my ass. It's fixed and working now.

btw...so far I'm LOVIN' my Ipaq 2215 from Santa.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Fishie

I have a number of books and use reader unactivated.
After changing machines and a couple of hard resets I just didnt bother activating it again and again.
The reader finds the books and opens em just fine.

Just to clarify: this strategy will work with any non-secure, i.e., non-DRM ebook. DRMed ebooks require the latest version of Reader to be installed and activated.

--janak

[Paula]

Janak,
For the MS Reader where do the books have to be installed? Can they reside on a mem card?

For Palm Reader it seems that I can install Palm Reader in main memory and read the Books from my mem cards. I have them in a "PeanutPress" folder on my CF card and unlike 2003 it doesn't seems to search all media.

Paula

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Paula

For the MS Reader where do the books have to be installed? Can they reside on a mem card?

Yes. They can reside just about anywhere. MS Reader searches the entire device.

For Palm Reader it seems that I can install Palm Reader in main memory and read the Books from my mem cards. I have them in a "PeanutPress" folder on my CF card and unlike 2003 it doesn't seems to search all media.

For Palm Reader, the .PDB files must be in "\My Documents\Peanut Press" either in main memory or a Storage Card.

--janak

[Jorgen]

>For the MS Reader where do the books have to be installed? Can they reside on a mem card?
>
>Yes. They can reside just about anywhere. MS Reader searches the entire device.

Which is probably one of the reasons MS Reader is s-o-o s-l-o-w at starting up!

Jorgen

[tanalasta]

I haven't upgraded my version of microsoft reader yet as i don't have enough space in my ROM but can i still re-activate this and read my old DRM'ed books i downloaded months ago?

The reason i stopped using the older v.2 of microsoft reader was of a memory leak problem that caused my device to crash randomly thus requiring a hard reset - enough to make me stop using MS reader. Just as reassurance, anybody had this problem with the newer version? Thanks!

[Jorgen]

I have never had that problem with the old versions (I have used hp-548, 568 and h1910). Memory leak, yes if there are graphics in the ebook but I have never encountered a lockup that required a hard reset.

Perhaps it only happens if your PPC's memory is very full? Or on certain PPC's? What PPC(s) did it happen on?

Jorgen

[tanalasta]

I'm using a e310 with the books stored on an SD card and the MS reader included in ROM. It used to happen randomly with all the books (e.g. NIV bible, free ebooks on from microsoft). The screen would lock up and slowly fade and be totally unresponsive to stylus taps nor respond to the soft-reset button. Only flicking the batteryswitch to hard-reset the device would work... Needless to say after a month or so i never used microsoft reader again :evil: