Thread: NEW KOBO DESKTOP SOFTWARE
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Old 06-23-2011, 09:54 AM   #56
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Originally Posted by PeterT View Post
Jack... You DON'T have to use any 3rd party program to sideload... One can easily jsut copy the ePub to the Kobo via Windows; or heck, even the command line if you want!

Now of course, purchased ePubs with DRM DO require you to have downloaded them via Adobe Desktop Edition, and since you have that open, one might just as well use IT to copy the ePub to the Kobo.

First no offense, but you dont get it. There is no desktop software management of books that one has that did not come from KOBO. This is shortsighted and unlogical. The desktop software should be able to handle any ebook you want to add to it. This would result in better management of the books resulting in better over all handleing of the books by the ereader. It could even mean that processing time,sort time and search times could be faster! I fully understand i can drop a book in the directory of the ereader. Thats not at issue. What is, is the fact that the current desktop software deletes your books, your ereader continually downloads kobo books from your ereader when you delete them and it connects to the store.
I want and I think others would too a desktop software that allowed us to manage out ebook collections all in one place. Not a desktop software that just does a limited book collection from kobo. For example say i have pdf files i created for use as a reference. I want the kobo desktop software to manage that for me. I have ebooks I purchased else where, I want the desktop software to manage it for me. One step not 2 or 3 or more.

I feel that the Desktop software would also offer more stability on the kobo touch as it could even catalog the books on the computer and place the catalog on the touch eliminatiing the need for the unit to process it. Thus speeding up the unit considerably as the donky work was done by the comptuer! And a file could be placed on the touch so that it knows where the books are stored ie Micro SD or Main memory. We would be able to tell the desktop software to place the books in main memory or Micro SD memory.

you could still add books via drag and drop and the touch would check the space on the Micro SD card or main memory to determine if scanning for additional content is needed.

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jack
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