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Originally Posted by Rizla
1) Should I beware allowing the device to upgrade firmware? I appreciate Kobo has yet to become like Amazon, but in any case, should I let it upgrade? Should I keep wifi off? Am I able to downgrade firmware if I choose to? I suppose I'll have to register the device too.
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You can downgrade firmware to the version the device was released with. If you do a factory reset, it will return to that version as part of the reset. As for wifi, I leave it off most of the time since I tend to sideload all my epubs from Calibre and kepubs using the Kobo desktop app.
Registration? There is a database hack to avoid registration. Or you can just invent an email address since Kobo does not seem to check if you have used a valid email address. At one time, I used
ima.pseudonym@somewheres.org and it was accepted.
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Originally Posted by Rizla
2) How to organize books? I assume I can't just organize and access book via directories, and that I will have to do it via Calibre tags. In that case, how to a move books from Calibre to Dropbox to the Kobo and still use collections.
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Sideloaded books are sent to my external uSD card but I don't bother with collections anymore. I find searching by title, author or series works for me. You can use davidfor's KoboUtilities to generate collections from Calibre tags and send them to your Kobo.
If you are attached to organizing by directory, you can use alternative reading software such as koreader. Koreader will use the calibre database to allow searching. For the most part though unless you have a large collection of ebooks in non-epub format, I find koreader to be of limited value.