Thread: Side-loading books apart from Kobo
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Old 05-08-2016, 12:34 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh View Post
David, is there a way of gauging how much space to leave on the card for the image files the Kobo creates when adding the books to its library? If there's not enough space, will it default to its main drive for these?
The firmware doesn't save the cover images for books sideloaded to the SD card. It only puts downloaded files there when it runs out of space on the main memory. So, that is kepubs and their covers, covers for recommendations and dictionaries. How much space is taken is related to the number of books it needs to put there.

You can sideload the covers and the device will use them. The KoboTouch driver in calibre will do this if the cover upload options are used. How much space depends on how big the covers are. But, there are four of different sizes generated, so that will use more space. The total should be less than the size of the book, assuming the cover image is included in the books.
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