How to Convert from K1 to K2?

Sydney's Mom · 01-02-2010, 09:21 PM

I have 892 books in Calibre. I had to enter them 100 at time to my K1, otherwise the indexing overwhelmed the battery, and it lasted less than 3 hours. Has anyone loaded a bunch of books on their K2, and was there a problem?

daffy4u · 01-02-2010, 09:30 PM

I can't answer you on how to load such a large number of books but if any of those books have the Kindle 1 PID as part of their DRM, you are either going to have to redownload those books (with your K2 PID DRM) or remove the DRM before loading them onto K2.

Sydney's Mom · 01-03-2010, 12:33 PM

Thanks. That is another thing I did that I thought was a big waste of time. One day, I searched AZW, and converted all to unDRMed mobi. Of course, I need to redownload the TPZ - maybe today.

Daffy, thanks for all your help. The system won't let me give you anymore karma, but I really appreciate it. Debra

daffy4u · 01-03-2010, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom

Thanks. That is another thing I did that I thought was a big waste of time. One day, I searched AZW, and converted all to unDRMed mobi. Of course, I need to redownload the TPZ - maybe today.

Daffy, thanks for all your help. The system won't let me give you anymore karma, but I really appreciate it. Debra

That's so sweet! You're very welcome!

kennyc · 01-03-2010, 01:13 PM

I can't answer either because I only keep a few to-be-reads on my readers but wanted to say

Good Luck!

daffy4u · 01-03-2010, 01:42 PM

Here's a link to a thread recounting sirbruce's adventures in loading 1700 books on his K2.

henry · 01-03-2010, 03:46 PM

I copied about 300 books from calibre (converted mostly from LRF and ePub to .mobi) onto my Kindle 2. It devoured my battery for about an afternoon, went from full charge to near zero. But since then I haven't had any issues.

fugazied · 01-03-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by daffy4u

Here's a link to a thread recounting sirbruce's adventures in loading 1700 books on his K2.

oh wow! I wish I had these kinds of problems but unfortunately I haven't had enough reading time to get up to 500+ ebooks ...yet...

Interesting that indexing takes up so much space.

Sydney's Mom · 01-03-2010, 09:36 PM

That is really helpful - thanks! I think I will be more judicious and only load a couple hundred. Since they are all in Calibre, and can easily load a variety, through tags.

01-02-2010, 09:21 PM	#1
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,207 Karma: 3715777 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicago Device: Kindle 4 (7th Kindle), Fire HD and Samsung Tab 10.1.2	How to Convert from K1 to K2? I have 892 books in Calibre. I had to enter them 100 at time to my K1, otherwise the indexing overwhelmed the battery, and it lasted less than 3 hours. Has anyone loaded a bunch of books on their K2, and was there a problem? __________________ Thanks to Mobileread, I have all the referral space I can use! Thanks, Debra I love my Kindles, thanks to MobileRead, I Heart Cabbages and Calibre!

01-03-2010, 12:33 PM	#3
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,207 Karma: 3715777 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicago Device: Kindle 4 (7th Kindle), Fire HD and Samsung Tab 10.1.2	Thanks. That is another thing I did that I thought was a big waste of time. One day, I searched AZW, and converted all to unDRMed mobi. Of course, I need to redownload the TPZ - maybe today. Daffy, thanks for all your help. The system won't let me give you anymore karma, but I really appreciate it. Debra __________________ Thanks to Mobileread, I have all the referral space I can use! Thanks, Debra I love my Kindles, thanks to MobileRead, I Heart Cabbages and Calibre!

01-03-2010, 01:13 PM	#5
kennyc Priorities! Priorties! Posts: 29,975 Karma: 38412194 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Galaxy SIII; Xoom; Kindle Fire	I can't answer either because I only keep a few to-be-reads on my readers but wanted to say Good Luck! __________________ Kenny A. Chaffin Art Gallery - Print Gallery - Writing&Poetry "Strive on with Awareness" - Siddhartha Gautama

01-03-2010, 09:36 PM	#9
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,207 Karma: 3715777 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicago Device: Kindle 4 (7th Kindle), Fire HD and Samsung Tab 10.1.2	That is really helpful - thanks! I think I will be more judicious and only load a couple hundred. Since they are all in Calibre, and can easily load a variety, through tags. __________________ Thanks to Mobileread, I have all the referral space I can use! Thanks, Debra I love my Kindles, thanks to MobileRead, I Heart Cabbages and Calibre!

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01-02-2010, 09:30 PM	#2
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,549 Karma: 1609085 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: K1, K2, KTSO, KFHD, K3, KPW, KDXG, HP Touchpadx2	I can't answer you on how to load such a large number of books but if any of those books have the Kindle 1 PID as part of their DRM, you are either going to have to redownload those books (with your K2 PID DRM) or remove the DRM before loading them onto K2.

01-03-2010, 01:42 PM	#6
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,549 Karma: 1609085 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: K1, K2, KTSO, KFHD, K3, KPW, KDXG, HP Touchpadx2	Here's a link to a thread recounting sirbruce's adventures in loading 1700 books on his K2.

01-03-2010, 03:46 PM	#7
henry Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS-505	I copied about 300 books from calibre (converted mostly from LRF and ePub to .mobi) onto my Kindle 2. It devoured my battery for about an afternoon, went from full charge to near zero. But since then I haven't had any issues.

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