Thread: New to Kobo - a few questions
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Old 06-19-2019, 09:29 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by 4691mls View Post
I gave up on my Sony reader because it's apparently no longer possible to download books directly from the library onto my PRS-T3. I have now acquired a Kobo Clara and have a few questions. I hope you nice people in the Kobo forum can help me out.

1. Overdrive - I've synced the Clara and acquired the library books that were currently on loan. Am I correct that the Clara's Overdrive function does not have access to my library wishlist, holds list, and loans list, and that I should continue using my phone or PC for those purposes, then sync the Kobo reader to acquire the books once they have been loaned?
You can borrow books and put holds on them from the device through the Kobo store. But, it doesn't integrate the other functions. You can use the Kobo wishlist for this if you want to. And when you sync the device and borrowed books will download.
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2. Navigation within a book - Am I correct that in the book/page navigation at the bottom of the screen, there is no place to enter a page number? This is something I used occasionally on my Sony and can't see a place to enter a number on the Kobo. Not a dealbreaker type of issue, just wondering if I missed something.
No, there is no way to go directly to a page number. You can go to a position with the slider.
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3. Transferring my books from my PC - I'm used to using the Sony Reader for PC desktop software and obviously i can't keep doing that. I have approximately 200 owned (non-library) epubs. About half were originally acquired through Sony/Kobo and those already loaded onto the Clara automatically when I synced it. The other half are from other sources such as Google Play or Gutenberg.

A.) Should I use Adobe Digital Editions or drag-and-drop via Windows Explorer?

B.) I don't have any obvious way to know which books on my computer came from which store. If I select all of them to copy, will the computer warn me of duplicates when it comes across the Kobo/Sony books that were already synced onto the Kobo?
You can use either method or something like calibre. If the books have Adobe DRM, you will need to use ADE to put them on the device. Or remove the DRM and then you can use the other methods.

The books from Kobo are managed in a completely different way. The files are there, but, in a separate location and named in a way that it isn't obvious which is which book. Manually sideloading, or using ADE will not show if the book has been downloaded. If you use calibre, it can show the books already on the device no matter what the source.
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