Text can be displayed in 3 sizes 2 for PDF documents , which you can cycle through by pressing the SIZE button near the lower left of the display. Holding the SIZE button rotates the display between portrait and landscape modes, too. You can also listen to music and view pictures on the Reader.
On the whole, reading books on the Sony Reader is straightforward and easy. The menus are kind of sluggish because of the refresh rate of the digital ink display, but that is avoidable by using the number keys to choose items directly. In order to load files onto the Reader you need special desktop software. Sony, of course, only supplies software for Windows. The CONNECT Reader software is similar to iTunes and other media library managers, with a straightforward drag-and-drop interface for managing a library of e-books and copying them to the Reader.
One of the problems in the e-book publishing world today is the proliferation of incompatible formats for commercial e-books. Unfortunately, Sony has done nothing to improve this situation with the Reader — not that I expected them to, of course. When I first got the Sony Reader I had some trouble getting it activated; it eventually worked, but the first few times I tried the software simply hung for several minutes before timing out.
On the other hand it does much better with PDFs created specifically for a small screen size. If you have a Mac, or some way to print to PDF on Windows, this can be a convenient way to convert almost any document for use on the Reader; just set the page size to around 3. For me, the Sony Reader is both useful and frustratingly imperfect. It has a permanent place in my gear bag, so that I can whip it out and read a couple of pages whenever I have a spare moment.
But for all of that, there are improvements I wish they would make. The screen contrast is disappointing, but I expect that will be fixed naturally as the digital ink technology improves. I also wish they had included some sort of display lighting.
Battery life of okay, but nowhere near the declared page turns. My PRS is hacked to support Cyrillic fonts. Also, clock display is fixed — turns out there is an internal clock, and the hack enables time display on the status line time is updated only when a page is turned.
You can set up things like margins and font preferences there. I really like my Sony Reader. Has significantly lightened my luggage when traveling! Great stuff! Well for me, the Sony fails in two respects.
The display is not backlit. For me this is the main clincher. I have to have good light in order for the Sony to be comfortable for me to read. I can read with the Treo anywhere. I can read at night as a passenger in a car, in a dim room, etc. I expect it in a week or so, and it will work out quite well. This will enhance my reading experience! Wow, great deal! In turn, the pandemic's subsequent digitisation race has presented the IT consulting companies with a thriving market.
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To be fair, and despite Google's apparent delight at killing off services , this one has been on the cards for a while, certainly since the company overhauled the user interface in with its "modern experience.
However, some users have stuck with the legacy web version of Voice despite warnings that bits of it would stop working in In July, the company said in a not-at-all-threatening manner:.
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In , the EU Court of Justice struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the bloc and the US in what is now known as the Schrems II ruling, which has ramifications for US cloud providers, social media sites, and providers of online tools.
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Manage Cookie Preferences Necessary. Always active Read more These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate the site as normal and use all features. Sign in. Thank you so much! That really helps big time! It was a lot of work because I double checked all info and inside the files if everything is correct. Good idea. I just got around to doing the firmware update a few minutes ago the joys of moving, don't you know , and I was looking to re-install the clock and jogstick page turners I had before.
I was thinking I might add the smaller fonts and the direct page control as well, and lo and behold, there it is: 6 with just minor tweaking needed to get the jogstick working the way I want. I'll say it again: you ROCK! This is a great post. I have hack 9 plus the new theme by diabloNL, of course. Does it make sense to add the theme to this list? Nice, Diablo! This might be enough to make my idea mere icing on the cake now. Mmmm, cake. I'll keep trying though! Originally Posted by ddavtian.
Originally Posted by JSWolf. Actually, that's a very good idea. Diablo, can you make it so that holind the volume up goes forward 10 pages and holding the volume down goes back ten pages. Originally Posted by diabloNL. Yes that's possible. Pick a number from the above menu and I will integrate it in there. Let me guess Great post, DiabloNL!
Very very useful information in one place. Number 9. I'm still trying to get the hang of the way things are set up in the reader I got a nice infinite loop last night , but couldn't you create a stub function to replace one of the mutes in applicationstart and then add the functionality in main by overriding that function? I'm doing something similar with my testing where I override doLeft and doRight in main.
The only difference is that I'm relying on their built-in functions. I'm at work without my reader, or else I'd try to make that work myself, instead of posting these pseudounderstandable theories. All times are GMT The time now is PM. Mark Forums Read. PRS Sony Reader hacks collection.
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