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Originally Posted by Bergerac
Follow-up: I have no choice but sticking to v5.44.0, but what will happen when a new upgrade will be made necessary for compatibility reasons with my reader, after a firmware upgrade? Will I have to give up using Calibre?
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When that happens, you will get a prompt from calibre about it. That has an explanation of what to do and to continue support. Part of that is a suggestion to read the Kobo forum and see what the status is.
But, based on past experience, it will be safe. The issues will be any extra function. That won't be supported, but, it probably won't break anything in with the current support. An example of this was the addition of the Series list. It is still safe to use the version of calibre from before that change on the Kobo, but, it will mean you sideloaded books will not be in the series lists.
And depending on what the change is, it might get into the Kobo Utilities plugin with backwards compatibility. Or it might be possible to add it via a driver in a similar way to what I did for add support for the newer devices for those stuck on calibre 4.23.
What gets done will depend on what the change in the firmware is and when it happens.