The Sony Reader PRS-500 had come back to me from A in December 2009, "not working". The screen was showing ghosting, taking a long time to change pages and so on. Sent it to the US for repair and or firmware upgrade. There, nothing was done since the Sony store guys just sent N to the website. Finally it came back, and found it working reasonably well. Probably the battery had some issues due to being left idle for many months, and a few charge / discharge cycles brought it back in the pink.
Because of the delays, purchased a Sony PRS-300 because R was also interested. Tried out the Calibre software, which has matured a lot since its inception in 2006-2007. Found that only the 0.6 versions and earlier support the PRS-500 with old firmware. Conversions to LRF or EPUB take 20-30 seconds per book, and there is a nice bulk conversion system.
Found a small glitch - when "merging" different versions, it is supposed to change all meta data to match the destination version. But the metadata for author in the EPUB files were not being changed. The calibre window shows the correct author name, but on uploading to the device, the device shows the original un-corrected Author name.
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