How to Convert from K1 to K2?

Sydney's Mom · 01-02-2010, 09:21 PM

I have 892 books in Calibre. I had to enter them 100 at time to my K1, otherwise the indexing overwhelmed the battery, and it lasted less than 3 hours. Has anyone loaded a bunch of books on their K2, and was there a problem?

daffy4u · 01-02-2010, 09:30 PM

I can't answer you on how to load such a large number of books but if any of those books have the Kindle 1 PID as part of their DRM, you are either going to have to redownload those books (with your K2 PID DRM) or remove the DRM before loading them onto K2.

Sydney's Mom · 01-03-2010, 12:33 PM

Thanks. That is another thing I did that I thought was a big waste of time. One day, I searched AZW, and converted all to unDRMed mobi. Of course, I need to redownload the TPZ - maybe today.

Daffy, thanks for all your help. The system won't let me give you anymore karma, but I really appreciate it. Debra

daffy4u · 01-03-2010, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom

Thanks. That is another thing I did that I thought was a big waste of time. One day, I searched AZW, and converted all to unDRMed mobi. Of course, I need to redownload the TPZ - maybe today.

Daffy, thanks for all your help. The system won't let me give you anymore karma, but I really appreciate it. Debra

That's so sweet! You're very welcome!

kennyc · 01-03-2010, 01:13 PM

I can't answer either because I only keep a few to-be-reads on my readers but wanted to say

Good Luck!

daffy4u · 01-03-2010, 01:42 PM

Here's a link to a thread recounting sirbruce's adventures in loading 1700 books on his K2.

henry · 01-03-2010, 03:46 PM

I copied about 300 books from calibre (converted mostly from LRF and ePub to .mobi) onto my Kindle 2. It devoured my battery for about an afternoon, went from full charge to near zero. But since then I haven't had any issues.

fugazied · 01-03-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by daffy4u

Here's a link to a thread recounting sirbruce's adventures in loading 1700 books on his K2.

oh wow! I wish I had these kinds of problems but unfortunately I haven't had enough reading time to get up to 500+ ebooks ...yet...

Interesting that indexing takes up so much space.

Sydney's Mom · 01-03-2010, 09:36 PM

That is really helpful - thanks! I think I will be more judicious and only load a couple hundred. Since they are all in Calibre, and can easily load a variety, through tags.

01-02-2010, 09:21 PM	#1
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,895 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	How to Convert from K1 to K2? I have 892 books in Calibre. I had to enter them 100 at time to my K1, otherwise the indexing overwhelmed the battery, and it lasted less than 3 hours. Has anyone loaded a bunch of books on their K2, and was there a problem?

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01-02-2010, 09:30 PM	#2
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,734 Karma: 2434103 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: KDXG, KT, Oasis	I can't answer you on how to load such a large number of books but if any of those books have the Kindle 1 PID as part of their DRM, you are either going to have to redownload those books (with your K2 PID DRM) or remove the DRM before loading them onto K2.

01-03-2010, 12:33 PM	#3
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,895 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	Thanks. That is another thing I did that I thought was a big waste of time. One day, I searched AZW, and converted all to unDRMed mobi. Of course, I need to redownload the TPZ - maybe today. Daffy, thanks for all your help. The system won't let me give you anymore karma, but I really appreciate it. Debra

01-03-2010, 01:13 PM	#5
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,872 Karma: 118716293 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	I can't answer either because I only keep a few to-be-reads on my readers but wanted to say Good Luck!

01-03-2010, 01:42 PM	#6
daffy4u I'm Super Kindle-icious Posts: 6,734 Karma: 2434103 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Long Drive, Calinadia Candafornia Device: KDXG, KT, Oasis	Here's a link to a thread recounting sirbruce's adventures in loading 1700 books on his K2.

01-03-2010, 03:46 PM	#7
henry Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS-505	I copied about 300 books from calibre (converted mostly from LRF and ePub to .mobi) onto my Kindle 2. It devoured my battery for about an afternoon, went from full charge to near zero. But since then I haven't had any issues.

01-03-2010, 09:36 PM	#9
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,895 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	That is really helpful - thanks! I think I will be more judicious and only load a couple hundred. Since they are all in Calibre, and can easily load a variety, through tags.

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