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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Jon I seem to recall others informing that Kobo doesn't update the editions already purchased; they newly release an updated version and one would have to pay for the updated version.
Or, I suppose one could contact Customer Service and request that Kobo provide the updated version.
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It's an interesting question. If the book is misformatted in part, or poorly formatted (so many are!), or has content missing, and that's corrected ... then shouldn't the first book be replaced as defective? A paper book would be. (And has been, in my own real-life experience.) Further, I think Kobo (or whichever vendor) should be proactive in offering the corrected version, and not leave it to the purchaser to find out about it and request it. If it's simply a new edition of the book, then that's obviously a different story.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Plain old file tree? As you said, old. Time to move into the 21th century.
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But why? If the stuff from the 20st [ ;-) ] does what you need and is still a comfortable fit ...
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Some of us do care about the information we can attach to our ebooks though it seems few of us are able to agree on just what information is important.
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Fair enough too. I don't think anyone said *no-one* should care about it. Speaking solely for myself, I'm not interested in all the annotation capabilities of Calibre, because I personally find the value it returns to be far less than the effort of updating the data for every book included in the system. And that in turn means I don't use Calibre, because my subjective experience is that if those kinds of facilities aren't useful to me, then the app becomes unnecessarily complex for what I *am* using it for. Subjectively, I find a hierarchical folder structure based on genre and author quite sufficient for me to find what I want. And for editing or conversion: If necessary, I use obok at a command line, Sigil for small amendments and Jutoh if I need to reformat extensively.