Quick update. Pride and Prejudice (a pdf) from Guttenberg does exactly the same thing. It looks like the book always opens about 1/4 of the way, then stops.

Once again, this is in Windows Vista x86. I have Bonjour installed and sharing turned on.

The problem reproduces with sharing turned off. It also occurs with sharing turned on and anonymous sharing turned on.

More info:

The last line is bizarrely cut in half, so I only see the top half of the letters. regarding the Pride and Prejudice book, here is the last readable sentence:

Mr. Wick­ham was the hap­py man to­wards whom al­most ev­ery fe­male eye was turned, and Eliz­abeth was the hap­py wom­an by whom he fi­nal­ly seat­ed him­self; and the agree­able man­ner in

Additionally, I've now run the program as an administrator and not. The problem occurs in both methods.

Edit: Yet more info:

Alright, I've now tried the same book using the Gutenberg txt copy. Once again, the text gets cut off at about the 1/4 mark.

Here is the last readable sentence:

“Do let us have a lit­tle mu­sic,” cried Miss Bin­gley, tired of a con­ver­sa­tion in which she had no share. “Louisa, you will not mind my wak­ing Mr. Hurst?”

(This is pg 39, the end of Chapter 11, according the MS Word. The pdf got cut off at pg 49, according to MS Word)

Sure thing. I've registered and logged in. Most of my files are now prc files, having been imported into mobipocket some time ago, but I can double check on some books from Project Gutenberg.