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That's what seems to be happening. I bought the Kobo since it used a card. I had a 4G card in the old Nook with regular free or purchased like from Baen EPUBS. I must have had about 200 books of old Sci-Fi from Smashwords, Gutenberg, and Creative Commons.

I put the card in the Kobo, and they all appeared in the library. I just assumed everything was normal until I started getting the duplicates. I looked at the card as drive F on the computer, and there were only 4 books on it. The rest were in E. AFAIK, E is internal memory. It says pretty much the same in Calibre. So somehow the books from the card got transferred to the internal. It could be a mistake I made in Calibre if there is a command to do that, but I usually doublecheck everything before clicking on it.

I bought 2 books last night and the Kobo would not download unless I updated. It seems to have left alone most of the stuff I either denied or deleted. (I delete dictionaries) don't want Pocket, don't want social, don't need reading tracked. Don't need the games and extra either. Give me one good serif and non-serif font, and I'm happy.

I don't remember anything in setup about the card as a destination - like save files to.

I'll have to reset the Kobo, but I've got to get the file formats in first. And like I said, on a search, if you have converted a book, the original shows up first in line, then the EPUB after a comma. That means opening each book and changing the tag if it was converted if Calibre will let you do that.

None of the new Kobos use a card, do they? I want a card, I don't want a cloud.

Thanks

I think most of the duplicates started after I started using Calibre to convert formats. Why books got transferred to internal stumps me. The Android doesn't do it, but then I use Windows to transfer to an SD card, not Calibre.