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Originally Posted by phossler
Q4: Does the Kobo show as another drive in Windows such that you can copy files directly?
Q5: I saw that there is a PC program that looks like a sync/manager. Any experience with that?l
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Q4: The Kobo exposed internal partition (the internal storage has multiple partitions but only one is visible to a USB connection) will show as a drive in Windows. If you install an uSD card, it will also show as a drive. While you can copy ebooks to those drives, I'd advise caution doing so. When a Kobo ereader processes a book, information about the book is stored in a SQLite database. Unless an ebook is deleted both as a file and by having it's information removed from the database, the new copy will have information such as the table of contents from the old copy. Either using the Kobo GUI or Calibre seems to work for me, using the GUI for a single book and Calibre when I go in for wholesale changes.
Q5: Not sure which you mean. Other than Calibre, I use the Kobo desktop application on occasion -- mostly after a factory reset -- but it only handles books downloaded from the Kobo bookstore and is not intended to handle your otherwise acquired ebook collection.
One caution is that I do not use collections, instead I use my Aura HD's search function to locate books. I do place books into series in Calibre and that information is searchable. Since the search is a live search, you don't need the full name -- just start typing the name and watch the results field populate. For example, to locate a book in David Eddings Tamuli series, I simply type ta and the 4th item in the search results is Tamuli. Tap on that and see the whole series.
Regards,
David