That flagship feature is only available between Dropbox & the Forma, as you stated. Overdrive support used to be only for newer Kobo models and after two? years was finally available to all except the oldest models. That change happened when the Forma was released IIRC. At any rate, don’t expect folder syncing in other Kobo models until a new flagship Kobo is released with an exclusive feature even better than Dropbox folder syncing.
As for syncing to a folder on your computer, it occurs to me that you could achieve something similar if you mapped your mounted Kobo to a specific Google Drive folder. The specifics of that would depend on your operating system, and Kobo organizes the ebooks for you, so I’m not sure if the Kobo would see the new ebooks if they are already in their respective directories as opposed to just dropping them at the root. You’d have to experiment.
Update: I used Dropbox instead of Google Drive. Since Dropbox doesn’t allow for symlinks, the only way to pull this off on my Mac is to clone the mounted Kobo into my Dropbox by running Rsync in terminal: rsync -rv /Volumes/KOBOeReader YourPathTo/Dropbox/
To sync changes from your Dropbox to your Kobo use this string: rsync -rv YourPathTo/Dropbox/ KOBOeReader/ /Volumes/KOBOeReader
You’d have to research Rsync to see which flags you want to add to the command line. Typing "rsync" at the prompt will give you the help file for the command.
I *could* drag and drop the drive manually, but if I wanted to sync these folders automatically, I’d code an AppleScript that executes that rsync strings above as a folder action, then attach it to /Volumes so that it runs every time the Kobo is connected to the Mac.
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