Thread: Libra Perpetual sync = battery drain
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Old 05-11-2020, 12:12 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by lensmann View Post
I've had the same issue (syncs not completing) on my Aura One for a couple of weeks. Using 'repair' did not fix the problem. Signing out and signing back in does appear to have solved the issue. However, it also deleted all purchased ebooks from the device, deleted my Pocket account and articles, and - most annoyingly - forgot which sideloaded books I'd read (they're now all marked as unread). I'm not sure if this is how signing out is supposed to behave - I read Kobo's website as saying that ebooks won't be deleted from your reader when you sign out and back in, but perhaps I misunderstood. Is there at least some way of saving the status of sideloaded books, in case I need to do this again at some point of time in the future? I have hundreds of sideloaded epubs on my Kobo (mostly academic articles downloaded as epubs from journals which support the format), and having them all suddenly marked as unread is quite inconvenient.
That page should say that you will lose these things for sideloaded books. The signout completely forgets the details for sideloaded books. When you sign in again, sideloaded books are imported and hence are unread.

For purchased books, the reading status and bookmarks should be synced to the server. The warning prompt mentions losing any changes since the last sync. And while the signout will remove the purchased books, they can be downloaded after signing in. The details of the purchased books will be downloaded and the five most recent books actually downloaded. But, you can download the rest easily.

The page does say "sign out and set up your eReader again". That means you need to redo the setup. Including signing into the various accounts. So, the other accounts, Pocket, Adobe and Overdrive, you need to set them up again. The OD account is the only one that is connected to your Kobo account in any way. The others are on the device only. If you had two Kobo ereaders, you could use the same Kobo account on both and different Pocket and Adobe accounts. But, once you sign into the Pocket account, the articles will be downloaded.

For the sideloaded books, Kobo explicitly doesn't do anything to save their reading status and annotations. They are only tracked on the device and Kobo doesn't store anything about them elsewhere. You can save the reading status to calibre with my Kobo Utilities plugin. You can restore the status afterwards. If you are reading epubs, the annotations can be reloaded from the files the RMSDK maintains when you open the book on the device. That has some problems, but, the annotations will usually be there.
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