Thread: Why doesn't KOBO Preload books on their readers?
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Old 12-04-2015, 01:36 AM   #11
davidfor
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Originally Posted by ProDigit View Post
It just takes a SD card format (about 30 seconds) to erase all of them.
You want to pull the internal SD card out of the Kobo device and format it? That would be a pretty stupid thing to do as the device would stop working.

But I suppose you mean format the user partition when the device is connected to a PC. Not as dangerous, but it would wipe the user info and you need to do the setup again.
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It took me a good 4 hours, to get about 500 books of my potential interest on them (mainly science, history, biography, religion, and some other non-fiction).
My first reaction was to wonder what you did you do for the other 3.5 hours. When I setup a new Kobo ereader, the sideloading would take maybe 15 minutes. Plus an hour or so of processing by the device. That would put over 1000 books on the device.

But, my second reaction was to work out that that was 30 seconds per book. Everyone of them is a book you want to read. That doesn't sound like a waste of time.

And thinking about your delete time, that's a mass "I don't want any" delete. If having preloaded books is actually a good idea, you would be looking through them and deleting them one at a time. That to me is a waste of time.
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