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Originally Posted by Pulpwood
Do these things (eReaders) take a great deal of maintenance and tweaking, or can they be purchased, plugged in and work worry free as any paper book would? Header this, grayed out that, upgrade forced or freely accepted, etc.......... Yikes!
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You can tweak, patch and add alternate reader software if you want and feel comfortable doing so. I choose to do so and find it adds to my reading experience though I have paid a price in factory resets. My wife prefers her Aura with no tweaks and purchases mostly Kobo's modified epub (kepub) ebooks with some library loans using ADE to synchronize them. The only time her Aura was factory reset was when I did so prior to giving it to her.
My suggestion would be to use your H2O and Calibre with the stock firmware until you are comfortable with both and then decide if you even want to try patching, etc.
One issue is when you sideload a large number of books, the time to process them is surprisingly long. A second issue is Kobo's error handling, which is not the greatest so a non-compliant epub can hang the processing stage. I'd suggest Sigil (see the Sigil forum here) with it's Flightcrew error checker and/or epubcheck (Google that one) to check your library for errors before sideloading them.