Thread: Preparing old collection of books for new reader?
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Old 08-26-2020, 10:04 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by marp68 View Post
I thought I should chose the "Change reading status in the device library". But I now found out that I should chose the "Store/restore current bookmark" and do it from that menu.

But what is "Change reading status in the device library" then? And why is it grey even when the device is connected and I have marked a book I want to change?
"Change reading status in the device library" is purely a way to change the status of the books on the device. Some people just want to do this. Plus it was one of the earlier functions in the plugin. It only works from the device list. It is intended to be use when the book on the device isn't in the library.

If you are in the library list, use the "Update metadata in device library". You can uncheck the metadata items and just enable the status options at the bottom. There are reasons in the code for why this is done this way.

The "Store/restore current bookmark" function is to get the status from the device and store it in the library, and, if needed send it back to the device. It won't work if you don't have an appropriate status in the library to send.

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Originally Posted by marp68 View Post
And is there a way to get the annotations back in to the new reader? I can see them in the Annotation column in Calibre.
No. The Annotations plugin is one way only. It doesn't store enough information about the annotations to be able to restore them properly. This might change with calibre version 5, but, not for a while and not for annotations currently in your calibre library.
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