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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Given that the kobo servers are down, it's not entirely surprising you're having some weird issues. What, besides some oddities which apparently only appeared after you side loaded books, leads you to think it's a refurb? How did you load these books on? Are you sure the metadata those books is correctly set?
Since it initially showed zero, it is far more likely that there was an issue in transferring content over.
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Well, I observed several things.
The first one (which I still considered ok) was that there were a number of fingerprints on the rubbery area when I opened the box "new" (above and below the page turn buttons).
Then, there were a good number of books which showed up only in the "series" view but otherwise were not there (so they did not show up in search). I also had no way to delete them (as they did not show up anywhere other than the series view)
The books I talk about where in English, Chinese, Italian and French. I do not speak Chinese and Italian and I do not have any books in those languages. I speak French but I do not have French books either.
My library (in Calibre) has 539 books - but for some reason additional books showed up - so after transferring the 539 books Kobo told me there were 541 (from the original zero). (Not sure where the difference of 2 - as I had about 6 ghost books)
I have done now a factory reset and transferred all books again (the same way I did originally) - and the "ghost books" did not come back. And I have now 539 books both in Calibre and on the Kobo. All the series are clean too.
Everything is as it should be - quite different from before (despite doing the EXACT same steps, with the only exception that now I did a factory reset, which I did not do on the brand new unit)
So nothing is certain, but it is VERY likely that the unit is a refurb...