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by johnchristopher 1881 days ago
Calibre's interface isn't to my liking but since they added the possibility to manage collections/bookshelves ~two years ago for my almost ten year old kobo I love it a lot ^^. Managing collections/bookshelves on the Kobo is a major PITA.
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wlesieutre 1881 days ago
Added support for Kobo's "series" organization feature as well. Apparently requires some janky 2-stage process because it's not done with the book's built-in metadata; you have to sync the books to the Kobo, then sync again for it to poke the special series sauce after the files are on the device.

Seems like a needlessly complicated way to do it when the books have series metadata, so props to Calibre for the extra work to support that!

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La1n 1881 days ago
Check out koreader for Kobo devices. I've been using it for a quite some time and it adds some nice Calibre features such as wireless sync. Besides that the PDF support is leaps ahead of stock Kobo

https://github.com/koreader/koreader

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gnull 1881 days ago
Agreed, I'm very happy with their Kobo support.

A great discovery for me was that Calibre can convert to KEPUB (subset of EPUB tailored for Kobo readers).

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