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I was reading my 505 out in the sun today, and noticed what appear to be large number of very tiny black spots on the screen which seem to be randomly and pretty evenly distributed. I've never noticed this before, but the screen has appeared to have less contrast than it did when I bought it 6 months ago. I don't remember my 500 looking this way either. Is this normal? I can still read text with ...

I used Calibre to move a few books over to my reader so that they would show in the correct "Collection" folder on the Reader. The problem I am having is that I have now removed all the books off the Reader from one of the Collections and yet the Collection still shows on the Reader, albeit with 0 books associated. I can't seem to find any way to manually delete the Collection title from the ...

Hi guys, Have any of you tried unfreezing a 505? After draining battery to about 25% I let it charge for a few hours, using the usb cable. When disconnected and turned on, it showed a starting up screen - which it never does. It's now frozen showing the overview of "Continue reading", "Books by title" etc. Half the screen is sort of toned out and blurry. I tried resetting, but it ...

I have a PDF for a book that is 6" X 9" that needs to be resized to 6.25" X 9.25". Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to do this? Thanks!!!

I've gone through the last ten pages of threads and no one has asked this. I haven't been able to use my SonyReader PRS505 for months There's nothing wrong with the screen or battery, it looks and charges fine but as I turn it on, it keeps restarting. The only way to make it stop restarting is resetting it which makes the screen freezes, the other way is connectting it to my computer....

hi guys, my prs-505 was bricked this morning. now i can't get it reset! a message on the ebook reads READER Firmware update did not complete successfully. please try again. i tried pushing the reset once and everytime i tried the power switch a yellow light lights up and that's it, nothing happens the ebook is only a month old, and i'm in singapore! no support ...

Good afternoon everyone, Please accept my apologies if this question exists but i have not been able to find it in the forums. I purchased my Sony 505 last weekend and have installed the library software and used Waterstones. I now have a Sony eBookstore Gift Card but it appears i need to register to use this and, when i try to download the software, it advises i already have a later version ...

Hi everyone, Can I enlarge the type for PDF's with the Sony PRS-505? The type is way too small for my eye's! I am very disappointed in this thing and would take it back in a second but the place doesn't accept returns. Any idea's will be greatly appreciated because 98% of what I currently read are PDF's. Thank you very much. Steve

Hi, guys. I've been checking this site for a long time now, but this is my first post. I updated my PRS-505 about three months ago, and I've been checking it every day. I just doesn't feel right. I'm not sure if it is just me, but it is now acting up. It always had battery problems, and since I life outside U.S, i just have to live with it. But now, I'm having issues with the booting. It ...

Hi all, and thanks all of you for the great job you've done about this Sony Reader. I've used many of your materials since the day I bought my PRS-505 in Paris, France. :-) Thanks again. Here is my question. I've been studying Japanese for a while, and I'd like to read some japanese rtf files on my PRS-505. I've used the PRSCustomizer where I checked the Unicode Fonts checkbox... but I...

I used Calibre to move a few books over to my reader so that they would show in the correct "Collection" folder on the Reader. The problem I am having is that I have now removed all the books off the Reader from one of the Collections and yet the Collection still shows on the Reader, albeit with 0 books associated. I can't seem to find any way to manually delete the Collection title from the ...

I was reading my 505 out in the sun today, and noticed what appear to be large number of very tiny black spots on the screen which seem to be randomly and pretty evenly distributed. I've never noticed this before, but the screen has appeared to have less contrast than it did when I bought it 6 months ago. I don't remember my 500 looking this way either. Is this normal? I can still read text with ...