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Originally Posted by porcupine59

Thanks to members here, just yesterday I was made aware of how to run with SideloadedMode=true enabled. All of my books are sideloaded, and I don't sync my books. I use Calibre and its auto-backup from KoboUtilities. I also, because I'm this way, manually back up time-stamped copies of the KoboReader.sqlite database from time to time.

Question #1 is, by copying KoboReader.sqlite, am I preserving annotations, notes, etc.?

Question #2, I understand I can still sync firmware updates even with SideloadedMode=true set. But how will that happen if I never sign into my Kobo account?

Question #3. Are there other salient effects of running with SideloadedMode enabled that are worth mentioning?

After three years I feel like I'm getting close to understanding more of the Kobo's secrets, but my brain's not all the way there yet! Any thoughts appreciated.

1. Don't manually backup the database from your Kobo. use the Kobo Utilities plugin to do it automatically. That will do it every time you connect your Kobo to your library.
2. You just do a sync.
3. Don't know.