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Originally Posted by gilster
Since logging out of Overdrive did not solve my problem -- able to read library books on only one of my two Kobo devices -- I'm thinking about doing the 'repair account' option. Question: I assume the 'repair' is only relevant to the device I trigger it on. In other words, does 'repair' change anything at the account end, or simply reload the device I'm repairing? I've got my Forma working just fine and don't want to compromise it, while I do want to repair my KA1 so I can read library books on it, as I used to do.
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From the Repair Account pop up:
"Repairing your Kobo account refreshes all of your books and collections. You should only repair your account if something is missing or not working properly. if you have a lot of books this may take a while."
I'm not sure what it exactly means by "refreshing", but I can say I've run it on devices which were working fine and had no issue. I suspect the warning is there to keep the requests to Kobo's servers down. I'll also say that doing this did not affect any other Kobo i had/have (and I did have multiple signed in to the same account at the time, still do actually).
I'd think your options are
1) repair account
2) log out of Kobo account and back in
3) perform a reset on the device, and here I'll apologize as I'm not sure which reset wipes the user partition. But that's the one you'd want to do.
I've put these options in order from least negatively impactful to most. Repairing your account shouldn't negatively impact anything, all your books will remain, annotations (notes/highlights) will remain, etc. Logging out of your device will I believe wipe those annotations out, and I think you'll have to redownload your books (side loaded should be fine but the device will need to re-import them which it'll do once you've registered again. Resetting would toss everything in the bin and you'd start from scratch, any side loaded books would need to be side loaded again, all your Kobo purchased books would need to be re-downloaded, all your annotations would be gone.
I've just tested OD on my two Formas and my Aura H2O v1 (which doesn't even have OD support but due to the way Kobo handles OD is still able to download the borrowed book) and all three devices work perfectly with OD stating the same time remaining.
If none of the above works, I'd suggest either posting back here with a step by step process of how you're getting the library book on both devices (it sounds silly i know but if I had a dollar for every time this resolved a seemingly unsolvable issue I'd be much better off.