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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Hi all, yes, long time no see. I've read through the thread here, and didn't see my question, so I'll ask it here and y'all can feel free (as I know you will) if it's already been answered elsewhere. My poor Kobo is on its last legs, and I'm looking for a replacement. I like the Kindle Oasis for the screen size and storage capacity, and since I'm an experienced Calibre user, I know all about sideloading, formats, etc. My question though, is how is sideloading on the Oasis. On the Kobo, it seems to take it a very long time to process anything sent to it from Calibre via the USB cord. Is this also the case with the Oasis? I plan to transfer quite a lot of my collection over to the device.
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You might want to check HarryT's thread on
Tips for loading a large library onto a KO2.
I recently helped one friend transfer his calibre collection after his old Paperwhite died after being slammed in his car door (it was in his jacket pocket and oooopppssss). He picked up a Clara HD which I helped him upgrade to 32GB and a new to him Voyage. It took less time to copy the books to the Clara HD, import them and reconnect to calibre to transfer the metadata than it did to copy the books to his Voyage and have it index the ebooks. I did not count the time to extract the epubs from his azw3s and check them. KindleUnpack and QualityCheck were very handy there.
His library consisted of about 3000 books in a mix of purchased and PD. The Clara HD took them in one burst and had them imported in under an hour. I'm not sure exactly how long since we went to enjoy a couple of sandwiches and beers and it was done when we got back. We started the copy of the same files to the Voyage after the Clara HD had finished the copy and it took about the same time as copying to the Clara HD. OTOH, the Voyage was still indexing when I left in the late afternoon. The report was that it took till the next evening before it finished indexing
Admittedly, my understanding is that indexing on a Kindle is a lot more intensive than the importing on a Kobo as the entire ebook has to be scanned and all words added to the index vs. adding the ebook and metadata to the database.
Collections and series are much nicer on the Kobo than on a Kindle using calibre to manage them. Not to mention being able to borrow from the library on his Clara HD (outside the USA so no Kindle ebooks from the local libraries) without downloading using ADE, removing DRM and converting.