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Originally Posted by zenji
Kobo has not seen fit to warn users that if you sign out of your Kobo account on the device, ALL of your books will lose their connection to the different collections you've made.
The collections will be there but none of the books will be in them.
You will also lose all annotations.
So in my case, that's dozens of hours of work lost.
I wish they would warn people.
Add to this the fact:
- you now can't add any extra memory to their devices
- you can't EASILY send or receive books wirelessly
- it won't sign in to Overdrive (the whole reason I signed out: i read that singing out of Kobo fiex the problem)
and I'm just about fed up with this company.
Alternative suggestions sought !
(Also any suggestions for backing up your collection info, until I can find a better reader)
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I had to do this recently, maybe two months ago. It wasn't nearly as bad as you have described it.
I use Calibre, which is free. All the books on my Kobo are either on Calibre or in Kobo's "cloud". Calibre organizes books by series and collections. Even though Calibre cannot directly interact with Kobo books, I still was able to quickly organize all my Kobo books again. When I redownloaded the books, they were assigned to series, and I had to use a little bit of time to put them into matching collections.
I have over 900 books on my Kobo, including some manga, and I'm at no risk of running out of memory. I only have 8 GB of memory, and it's only now that I put some manga on the Kobo that I run any risk of running out (I still have more than half of the memory available). I don't need a memory card.
I had no problem with wirelessly downloading Kobo books. The largest part of my library was in Calibre, but the Kobo collection didn't take too long. To be blunt I keep too many books on the Kobo anyway. Most of my Kobo books can just stay in the Kobo cloud.
I had no problem signing into Overdrive. It just needed my library card number and PIN, and I had been using that with my library for years. (I found it easier to directly download library books to the Kobo rather than use Adobe Digital Editions.) To get the library card I just opened my wallet. The PIN is the last four digits of my phone number, although I guess that rule varies from one library jurisdiction to another.
I don't use annotations, but I'm surprised you would lose them. I can apply annotations via Kobo Desktop, so I would expect the annotations to reappear in my Kobo-derived books when I redownload them onto the Kobo. (Can anyone confirm?)