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Originally Posted by Halk
It's been a while since I changed readers, but I'm now considering the latest Kindle and the Kobo H20. The Kobo at the moment seems best.
I've been reading and watching reviews and looking at threads but there's something that I think I should properly understand before I buy.
How well does the Kobo Aura H2O handle large libraries of books which are manually added? Does it treat them differently to books purchased on the device? In combination with Calibre can I have a large library of books on the Kobo which are easily and neatly sorted so I can navigate properly?
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Currently, I have ~2400 ebooks on my Kobo. Large enough for my purposes.
Sideloaded books are treated differently in that reading position, etc. are not synced across multiple devices. There are some issues with Canadian privacy laws so Kobo appears to be avoiding the issue by not having information about books not purchased from them on their servers. One comparison I ran across is that in the US, the police can ask a library for your checkout history while here in Canada, the library removes the information when the book is returned.
Not sure what you mean by navigation. If you mean a file/directory structure, that is not supported unless you use an alternative reader such as koreader or CoolReader. You can use collections to sort books together or (my personal preference), add series information and use the builtin search function to locate books by title, author or series -- using a database makes the search quite fast and painless. Koreader recently added the capability of using the calibre database stored on your ereader to search for books instead of navigating a directory tree to locate them.
I'd recommend using Calibre to manage collections, series information, etc. It's a lot easier than trying to use the limited GUI on the Kobo device.