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Originally Posted by compurandom
I've done this enough times that I have a work around for that.
I use reading list to sync books to the device. When I want to add a book, I add it to a reading list that adds a tag to the book and syncs everything on the list on next connect and clears the list.
I have another reading list that is sync'ed from what is on the device, and sets the flag, so everything on the device gets the flag set eventually.
I have saved searches that give me lists of books that are suppose to be on the device but are not (in case I finish a book and delete it, now I can go mark the book as done and clear the on device tag).
It is possible to soft reset the device and have it rebuild the database without needing to re-sideload all the books (just delete the database), but even if the side loaded books get wiped, I can just select the ones with the tag and schedule them to be sync'ed again. Or weed out the list before I do that. Or send them in small batches over a couple of days when it is convenient...
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Thank you, and others for any tips.
I'm not quite sure I understand what this "reading list" is? Is it a feature in Calibre?
Anyway, I was grumbling before I actually did the reboot on the Sage. When I tried re-sideloading my books in batches of 500 at a time, I noticed that wasn't working so well. And I noticed that the device seemed to rebuild it database by itself, althought it seemed to need a few reboots to do it, it couldn't do it all in one go.
All it seemed to be able to rebuild though, was the division into shelves. I had lost all my reading progress on the books I'd been reading *and* any annotations/highlights &c I had added. So the're still annoying, these reboots.
I do have Calibre make a backup of the database every time. Maybe next time I'll try and figure out if I can reinstate that and whether that has better results. (Are highlights &c saved in the database? Or in some other file, so this won't help?)