I have tried this and now I can not sync to get my kobo books. Davidfor mentioned that this might be a problem.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=647
I am hoping there is a way I can transfer my stats, annotats, books marks and reading life. I have ~ 300 hours of reading time in (took the last 6 months. and over 3000 sideloaded epubs (converted to kepub).