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For those who come after me and have troubles getting books installed on the Pocketbook EO - part of my problem was my lack of familiarity with Android. I had a Samsung S20 Ultra that I didn’t like and gave to my sister. I do have a Chromebook, but it is ised solely as a Chess server for an auto piece detecting eboard. And of course I didn’t read any manuals.
Step by step I did;
1) Unbox the EO and hit the power button. It was at 88% power and it asked to connect to a wifi network. I gave it my credentials, it connected and then detected, downloaded and installed an update.
2) I used the built in browser and searched for ‘github koreader’ (without the quote marks
3) I downloaded the koreader-android-arm64-v2024.07.apk to the ereader and installed it.
4) On my Macbook Air I launched Calibre, clicked on the Connect/share tab and selected start content server. I selected this option again and wrote down the IP address and port number.
5) On the Pocketbook EO I opened Koreader and tapped the top center of the screen (basically right in the big koreader heading), tapped the gear icon, tapped Calibre and tapped connect.
6) Tapped the top center of the screen again, tapped the search magnifying glass and selected OPDS catalog at the bottom. A bunch of libraries were offered but not Calibre. Easy-peasy
7) I tapped the big plus sign in the upper left corner of the EO screen and entered Calibre as the Catalog name and 192.168.0.12:8080/opds as the catalog URL and saved it.
8) Calibre then showed up as a library entry and I was able to access all of my ebooks that were on my Macbook Air and being able to search by whatever criteria listed. downloading was then straightforward tapping on a title and tapping download.
At some point in my fumbling around I was offered a chance to set a download location for material download via this method and I’ve just got them in the root(?) folder of Koreader on the EO (works for me).
A big help was a Youtube video by. Stefan Svartling (channel name) called How to transfer ebooks wirelessly to your Kobo eReader or other eReaders - two different methods!
So, Calibre/Koreader for wireless transfer and OpenMTP for USB-C to Mac transfers.
Hope this helps anyone or for me when I forget and have to reinstall everything.
Tom
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