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Originally Posted by lealla
Thank you for the tips! I used some of the advice here on mobileread about automating the collections via the tag tools in Calibre, so although it will be time consuming to restore, it won't be too agonizing! As I said, I'm sad to lose my annotations, but not as sad as I am without my ereader right now!
However, I feel your pain because I used to have one of the older kindles and had spent hours sorting my books into groups, only to accidentally ruin everything when it became damaged. I try to be very careful now!
(I have also learned too not to be too button happy with plugins - especially after it took me ages to properly catalogue everything after my first gung-ho attempts!)
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Yes, very unfortunately re: your lost annotations. I've also experienced losing annotations, but had only created them for 3 books before the loss, and figured the process too cumbersome to bother anymore on Kobo's sluggish firmware.
You might want to look into KOReader. I hear you can connect EverNote, so maybe your e-reader annotations can live across multiple devices and avoid losing them again? Plus the benefits of PDF reflow seem outstanding. I'm planning on installing KOReader after I get firmware 4.5 OTA.
Indeed, sorting books on the device is now a thing of the past, good riddance!
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Originally Posted by davidfor
From memory, the device checks the version of the database each time it restarts. Restoring one from a version or two ago should be OK. Plus, the database version doesn't change with every firmware version. I'll have to do some tests to check.
What did you press? I thought everything was reasonably well explained. It's not hard to do something like reset the reading status of a lot of books, but, you have to do a bit of work to achieve that.
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Thanks for trying to figure this out davidfor. Honestly, it's a hazy memory, but I'm almost positive my database got corrupted during the update/reboot phase, and was unable to restore the database due to an incompatibility issue brought about by the upgrade process. It may have been the move to journaling...
Kobo Utilities offers a good surface explanation of what a function does, even to a newb like me, but I wish there was a warning dialogue for potential consequences of some actions.
I may have clicked "Refresh the list of books on the device", or "Update metadata in device library". These sound pretty innocuous, but I really have no idea of negative consequences by clicking those. Now that I manage everything in Calibre, there's less fear of a SNAFU.
These days I simply avoid everything in Kobo Utilities except to backup the database. Maybe one day I'll find the Wiki...
