[franklekens]

I have the new Ellipsa, to which I'd like to add most of what's in my Calibre library, since it's easier just to lump everything on the device (which has a huge memory anyway) than start picking what I want to transfer and what not.

I sideload these books with Calibre, there's hundreds of titles.
But It seems this won't run smoothly except if I only pick about thirty titles at a time. In fact, sometimes even fewer. Otherwise I get error messages.

At first I thought the process balked at some rather big books (2 Mb and upwards), but even that doesn't to be the problem.

What's the deal with this? Is it so hard for Calibre to mass import books onto the Kobo reader? Is there no other way?

(Yes, I could drag them on to the device via the Windows Explorer, but that doesn't carry over my shelving. And my shelving is rather a mess, but at least it gives collection *some* order, messy as it is. Besides, Calibre puts all the books in separate folders by author, I'm not sure dragging all those folders would even run that smoothly.)

Looks like I'll be hours at this, jeez.
Actually, I suspect this isn't an Ellipsa problem as much as a Calibre and/or Kobo (or Calibre/Kobo) problem. I've had it with previous devices as well; don't quite remember how I overcame the tedium/irritation.