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ezzkmo · 11-20-2011, 12:52 PM

I have a Kindle Touch, and about 300 books on it that I transferred from Calibre and organized into collections (I imported the collection folders from my old K3), but I still had to move most of the books into their respective collection by hand after putting them on the Kindle.

Anyways, I have a 2nd Kindle Touch under the same Amazon account coming in the mail Wednesday. Can I literally drag-and-drop the whole documents folder (via the PC) from my current KT and dump it on the new KT when I get it, and have all the books, notes, and collections show up on it, making it identical to the 1st one? Because it took me hours to pick and choose those 300 books from calibre to transfer over, then organize the collections, let them index, etc. I'm not so much concerned about the few books I purchased from Amazon...I can re-download those few to my new device via wi-fi. I just don't feel like going through calibre, transferring, and moving 300 books into collections by hand again if I don't have to.

Hope I made it clear and sorry it was long-winded for a simple question...couldn't find an answer in the forum. Thanks!

11-20-2011, 12:52 PM	#1
ezzkmo igloo appraiser Posts: 36 Karma: 933022 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: California, USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2, Kindle Keyboard	Transferring books/collections from Kindle to Kindle I have a Kindle Touch, and about 300 books on it that I transferred from Calibre and organized into collections (I imported the collection folders from my old K3), but I still had to move most of the books into their respective collection by hand after putting them on the Kindle. Anyways, I have a 2nd Kindle Touch under the same Amazon account coming in the mail Wednesday. Can I literally drag-and-drop the whole documents folder (via the PC) from my current KT and dump it on the new KT when I get it, and have all the books, notes, and collections show up on it, making it identical to the 1st one? Because it took me hours to pick and choose those 300 books from calibre to transfer over, then organize the collections, let them index, etc. I'm not so much concerned about the few books I purchased from Amazon...I can re-download those few to my new device via wi-fi. I just don't feel like going through calibre, transferring, and moving 300 books into collections by hand again if I don't have to. Hope I made it clear and sorry it was long-winded for a simple question...couldn't find an answer in the forum. Thanks!