Thread: Is there a simple summary of what devices work " out of the box" with calibre
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Old 02-19-2014, 12:10 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan View Post
As you have already managed books with calibre for a Sony device, I'm assuming out-of-the-box means after configuring metadata management and "send to device" driver. It it's so, Kobo works "out-of-the-box". You can sideload books as you like, and it supports ADE authorization, so no walled garden there. There're more options if you like, but that's the way always with calibre.

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well I'm here with a new Kobo aura - HD & so much for "out of the box."

calibre says it has sent to books & that they are on the device.
the Kobo aura HD stubbornly says " no books"- except for the 2 screens full of user guide clones ( see below)

this is exactly what I was hoping to be warned about - now look forward to frustratingly searching for what ELSE I need to do before I can read anything

update; 2nd attempt- 1st time I ejected it it went into an "updating" sulk for several minutes before declaring "no books"
on this 2nd try it's admitting that it has 2 - so some slow progress.
very unfriendly set up process. a forced connect to kobo desktop before it would work at all, then a mandatory slow upgrade....
then the desktop kobo program sets a set of about 12 user guide books, one for each model they make, & for each language they speak, all with identical titles... I have managed to delete those now... but hey, by tomorrow I may have actually managed to read something.....
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