The bulk of Monday's work was ebook maintenance.
The battery on my Sony 505 had expired again, so recharging the battery was the first thing.
While doing that, I had decided to download the book I had selected to read - Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe. No particular reason except that it seemed like a nice break from Kokoro (more on that later, since I now realize it was also an ebook or two!) both in setting and time.
But I lucked out.
Eastern Standard Tribe, http://craphound.com/est/, besides being available in a wide variety of etext formats ... from plain text to epub to tiny jpeg images suitable for an ipodish book ... it comes with a couple of bonus chapters ... a text interview with a German magazine and an mp3 version of the interview also, not to mention a website / blog. The only thing missing seems to be a manga version ... :)
So I downloaded the epub version (339 KB) and the text version (305 KB).
While waiting for my Sony Reader to charge, I also scouted around for something else, and fount two short stories that sounded like fun, Kurt Vonnegut's 2 B R 0 2 B and Doctorow's I, Row-Boat.
When it had charged, I connected it to my MacBook and went about getting the books into the Reader. Halfway through the process, the Reader software says it needs to to update itself, so I said ... OK. And then immediately get error messages about my device being unplugged, maybe files were lost, etc ...
Luckily (!!) all of that was mainly sloppy programming work, the reader was fine. But since the reader itself is slow, the Mac software is slow, and the whole process is unnecessarily gruesome. It's easy to see why the Kindle has succeed when the Reader has not - the simple act of getting a book ready to read should indeed be simple.
So anyway, the Reader is loaded, and I'm my reading way.
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