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Originally Posted by theonna

It took Calibre 15min to delete 3000 books, it took Calibre 40 min to process 3000 books, another 40+ to put them on the device, it took Aurora another 30+ min after all that to process those books and actually become useable. And this is after Calibre supposedly already created database.

Yes, it takes time to delete the books through calibre. It is removing stuff from the database and deleting the books and cover images. And it takes time to send the books to the device. And then it takes time for the device to process the books. The only error you have is that calibre does not add the books to the database when sending the books. That is left to the device.

Now that it all clean and the books are on the device, how long does it take to add ten books?

Problem besides time is that Kobo did not even care to create anything to automate managing shelves or libraries for their device, people must rely on Calibre for that functionality.

That is correct. They have their own application to put books on the device. Unfortunately, they didn't add the function there.

As far as book search- english is fine, it is those pesky other languages, Chinese, Hindu, Cyrillic that you wont be able to find, of course if you are "power" user you'd used Calibre or something else to transliterate meta information for your books, but just imagine how faster it would have been if you did not need Calibre, just put your folder organized collection on the device and you are ready to go.

I find the search works well. And well enough I am not spending as much time on the shelves as I did. But, I can't really comment on non-English search other than to say I haven't seen many complaints before. Because of that, I assume it was OK. Are you using English as the interface language, or the language you are searching in? That might be the difference.

And I have to say it:

It sound like you bought the wrong device. From everything you say, the Kobo devices are not for you. Not having a file browser is well known and even a tiny bit of research would have shown this. And the one thing I am completely sure about future firmware, is that it won't have a file browser. Kobo will fix some things and break others. They will add some things we like and some things we hate. Same with removing function. But, I would be stunned if they added file browser.

The language support is a bit different. As I commented above, my impression is that it isn't bad, but, I only speak English (though my wife might not agree). Anything I know about other language support is from comments here. Finding information on it would have been a bit harder. Of course, I don't think Kobo make any claim to support the languages you mention. They do support Japanese, I probably thought that would flow to these languages as well.

Of course, there is no reason you should not ask for these extra functions. But, don't be surprised when Kobo never give you the file browser. Better language support is probably on the cards, though I have no idea when.