Yay, I finally got my PRS-505 e-Book reader! I fed it with a couple of e-books from the Gutenberg project and its German affiliate, and I’m very pleased with the display and reading quality. Now I can finally take something to read with me again on conference travels and other occasions when I don’t want to have lots of luggage.
Now that I can actually try it, I found that my initial packaging of calibre was pretty incomplete, it didn’t detect the reader at all. Now I added the missing bits and updated it to the latest upstream version (see my PPA). It’s working out of the box now for the PRS-505.
Enjoy!
#1 by Savva on 2009/01/01 - 16:14
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you may find this tool useful
http://www.lib2go.com
#2 by fshapps on 2009/01/21 - 02:15
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Martin,
Thanks for the calibre package! Any chance you could update to the latest version of Calibre? (.0.4.129)? The calibre site doesn’t include .deb files and I’m hesitant to install anything that’s not a package.
#3 by martinpitt on 2009/01/21 - 03:12
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Today, calibre went through the NEW queue in Ubuntu. I’ll update it to latest upstream version soon.
Upstream is releasing new versions every other day as it seems, so keeping up is quite a challenge.
#4 by mrcomment25 on 2009/05/08 - 10:15
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There are new reader versions, Sony PRS700BC and Kindle2. You get detail of them at http://www.coolcheapest.com/ebookreader.aspx or you can compare them with PRS-505.