Thread: Looking for solution for syncing two Kobos
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Old 06-02-2019, 09:16 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by kyrilson View Post
So I have two Kobos, a Kobo Glo HD and a Clara HD. I read the Clara at home and I use the Glo HD when at work and out and about. I guess you could call my Glo HD my "beater" ereader.

Anyways, I sideload almost all of my books because I despise DRM. Loading to both is pretty easy and I just try to remember where I'm at in a book when switching between the ereaders. I don't mind that they don't sync the last position on sideloaded books, it's just a small inconvenience.

However, I also do a lot of collections, etc on them both, I have a lot of different collections like Spenser, Lord Peter Wimsey, etc. Trying to maintain these on both is getting to be a bit of a pain and I was wondering if anyone knows of a solution to sync up the collections between the two devices? Do Calibre or the Kobo Utilities plug in have anything like this? I poked around in both, but didn't really see anything that jumped out at me other than an option to "backup the database" in the Kobo Utilities. Not sure how that works.
Just configure the collection management in whichever of the KoboTouch or KoboTouchExtended drivers you use (see the @ps67 posted), plug each device and let calibre do its stuff. Any book on both will automatically be put into the same collections.

You can sync reading positions using my Kobo Utilities plugin. But, it needs you to plug a device in, fetch the reading status and the plug the other in and push them there. It is a bit clumsy for day-to-day use to sync the devices.

The other step is getting the same books on the devices. For this, I use the Reading List plugin. I create a reading list for each device I have. When I get a new book, I put the book on the reading lists for the devices I want it on. When I connect the device, I sync the reading list for that device and the books are sent and put on the appropriate collections.
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