[sophiek]

We have 3 KTs in our family, all on the same account. We do not sideload books and so far only purchase books through the Kobo website. I am trying to figure out a simple way to manage the libraries on the 3 KTs. Our interests differ enough that we rarely share books so we tend to purchase and download directly on the KT, avoiding the desktop altogether, however with each firmware upgrade, there is no way around syncing, requiring playing with the 'I'm Reading' list on the Kobo website for each KT user, syncing that with the desktop, then syncing the KT with the desktop to end up with each KT having only that user's books on it. Repeating this 3 times is tedious and I thought that the addition of bookshelves would help this.

With the latest upgrade, I thought I might be able to put all of our titles in the 'I'm Reading' on the website, then sync with the desktop to get all of the titles to appear on the desktop. This worked. Next I was going to create shelves on the desktop and assign the various titles to shelves specific to each user (and a few shared shelves) so that each user could then sync with desktop and just look for their own shelves in their KT library. I hit a snag when I discovered that the desktop does not have shelves.

I love the idea of the shelves. Does anyone have any suggestions or insight into how they can help manage everyone's library within our household? we only have 132 books in our combined library so I could sync each KT and individually assign each title to a shelf on each KT. What I am wondering;

1) Is there an easier way, or
2) if not, for future syncs or purchases, what happens to new books? Do they just show up as unassigned to bookshelves so that each user can deal with them as they wish?

Any insight into how to manage basically 3 libraries under one account would be much appreciated.