[AnneT]

I'm considering switching from my Boox T68 that has some hardware problems to a Kobo (Aura H20), but still have some questions...

1) Most of my books are epubs, and in a review on a Dutch site I just read that you have to convert them all to kepub before you can read them on a Kobo reader.
I'm wondering if this is correct? I have already purchased several books from Kobo, and none of them was a kepub. So I'm wondering if you purchase books from within the device, they are downloaded as kepub?
And maybe there is a desktop app from Kobo that can only sideload kepub?
All my are in Calibre, and I would be really surprised if I had to convert them all to kepub before I could upload them to my ereader.


2) With my Boox, it's very easy to have my books show up with there genre and sub-genres and sub-subgenres, as I have assigned those to my books within Calibre (thanks to the android app Calibre Companion). (Like `Historical Fiction/16th Century/Europe/England', or 'Non-fiction/Biology/Genetics')

I know Kobo has 'shelves', but as far as I know, there aren't 'nested' shelves. So I can't have a top-shelve 'non-fiction', containing several sub-shelves, that in their turn have still further divisions?

3) Even if the answer for 2 is negative, I would consider this device... unless it wouldn't be possible to have a book on more than 1 'shelve'. So: can a book have more than one tag, genre, collection, whatever? (A book that's both on 'shelve 'England', and on shelve 'historical fiction')

4) Is it possible to sort my books in different ways?
Sometimes I want to read a book in a certain genre, another day I want to read a book in this or that language, sometimes I just want to read a book that's situated in a particular country... (My Boox with Calibre Companion let me group my books by author, by genre, by language, by series, by (other) tags...) Is this possible with the Kobo software?