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Originally Posted by bookyboy
You mention Calibre, but then are speaking about "on-device" management concerns. I'm curious, what are you doing in terms of on device management that Kobo is allowing for but a Kindle isn't?
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Hmmm... Series, collections, subtitles, Overdrive. Seeing that an ebook I was looking at in the Kobo store is on hold at the library. Being able to search the library and check books out or place holds from my Kobo. Yes, I know about Kindles and libraries but since I am not a resident of the USA, it's a useless bit of information.
I haven't used a Kindle in a few years (the old Kindle I was gifted with is retired to being a serial number for download for USB transfer) so perhaps Amazon has now implemented a series display and search capability, is allowing collections to be managed other than manually from the ereader GUI, is able to borrow from Canadian libraries, etc.
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Originally Posted by bookyboy
And how does Calibre tie into that for you?
For me, every reader I've had for about 6 years now works equally perfectly with Calibre at least.
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How does calibre tie into that for me? I maintain subtitles, collections and series in calibre. They are automagically updated onto my Kobo. No jailbreak needed. No need for manual collections.
I'm reading an ebook on my Kobo, I connect to calibre and the reading percentage, location etc. are updated into their columns. I finish the ebook and on the next connection to calibre, the finished column is updated and the ebook is moved into the Finished collection. This took a bit to set up but now the computer is doing the scutwork just the way the ghods intended.
As an example, I look at Golden in Death. It's finished and the last read data was 2020-Feb-08. Then I look at The Shaman of Karres. It was last read on 2020-Apr-07, it's at 75% read and the last read location was OEBPS/Text/9781982124564__20.xhtml. Sadly I won't be able to finish the book until the rest of it is released in May, 2020 since this is one of Baen's 75% pre-releases from a monthly bundle.
Other ereaders work with calibre. Kobo's ereaders take it to the next level. I am very grateful to Kovid Goyal and DavidFor for what they have done.