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Originally Posted by speakingtohe

Seems I am your most frequent visitor to this thread

Which is not a problem as your thoughts are always welcome

I have two Kobos, a Mini and an Aura.

I managed to get both the finished and reading shelves on both readers.

While doing this with the mini I selected all books with a reading status and used the restore bookmark function. I have quite a few books accidentally opened on both readers and maybe a dozen or so in progress books.

I looked at the Reading shelf on the Mini and had 47 books which seemed excessive. Then I noticed that some had an unread status and thought they had been reset, but remembered that I was actually reading them on the Aura.

I can avoid this happening again by filtering by ondevice , but thought it might provide a way for those who want to sync between Kobo readers with sideloaded books to do it.

I have done this to sync my two devices. Mainly to prove it worked, but, I did mess up my Glo the other day and had to read on the Touch for a while.

But, it is most useful for a factory reset. I store the reading location for all the books on the device, then after the factory reset, put the books that are in progress back. Then do a restore of the reading status. As I also put already read books in a series back on the device, I can also set them to an appropriate status. Doing this has taken a factory reset from "avoid at all costs" to just a big nuisance.

For the books you have synced the wrong status, you can clear it using the Update Metadata option, or the Change Reading status option in the device list. But looking at it, Store/Restore probably should have the "Clear if unread" for the restore as well. And there isn't an easy way to clear both the library and the device.