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Originally Posted by davidfor
With the current firmware and 1000 books, I don't think it matters much. The only thing is that it will take at least an hour to process the books after disconnecting. If you can wait that long, put them all on. If you want to read something quickly, just add a few and then add the reset later.
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I have about 2,500 books in Calibre. Nearly all of them with ODT or DOCX sources, and large xcf/xcfbs2 Gimp sources for many covers (I know they'll be erased if the sub-dir name is changed by Calibre, but these are copies). 3.5 GB.
When I want to copy all of them to another device, I compress the whole Calibre directory to a 7z (or zip or rar) file, on the destination, I erase the Calibre dir created by the installation, and replace it with the copy of the original. I create an archive, because lots of small individual files need a long time to be copied to an USB key or disk, whilst a whole 3-GB file takes only minutes.
The whole operation will take less than half an hour on PCs with good processors.
Sorry. I should delete this post, but I don't find how to do it. I did not understand the thread was about transferring to the Kobo, probably because, to my mind, transferring such numbers as 1000 books at once to a Kobo was unlikely. The Kobo (I have an Aura H2O) is so slow and the firmware so bad, that transferring more than 20 books at once is unrealistic. Having more than 200 books on a Kobo is useless, since you cannot browse them fast enough.