Well, that was certainly odd.

I’ve been using the Sony Reader Library via Windows 7 for a while now, and today I found a new bug: while attempting to sync to my Reader, the application would hang on a particular book.  After trying a number of different things, I found out that it was not the book which was listed that was causing the problem, but the next book in the library.

For some reason, the link to the location of the book on disk was corrupted; it showed up just fine in the Reader Library, though clicking on the book resulted in an error saying that it could not locate the file.  I removed that book from the library, added it in again from its location on disk, and then the Sync operation worked without a hitch.

I haven’t had too many problems with the Reader Library software from Sony, though clearly what they need to do in this case is to alert the user that there is a problem, and what that problem is.   Hopefully this will be fixed at some point, though the pace of updates is currently very slow.