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I'm repeatedly telling myself to do that because I've ended up having multiple copies of the same documents scattered over different devices instead of centrali

I'm repeatedly telling myself to do that because I've ended up having multiple copies of the same documents scattered over different devices instead of centralizing my calibre instance. When I considered doing that on fated weekend I abandoned the idea under the impression of not having the possibility of sync reading position, annotations on PDFs and most importantly lacking the support for my e-book... though most likely I simply missed the finer details on how to do all of that

theshrike79 2y ago
I think you can use Calibre-web as a "store" for Kobo devices pretty easily (basically swap one URL in a config file on the device). I gave up on the synced reading position at the same time I sold my Kindle, but I can live with that. Getting stuff on the device is a bit of a hassle too, because I can't exactly go plug it in to my NAS, but exporting 50+ books to a directory and copying them manually takes a few minutes and I'm set for a year or more - so it's time well spent :D Having everything (except for comics) consolidated in one place is the main reason I tolerate Calibre's quirks and eccentricities. It's ... opinionated, but it's still by far the best tool available for the price.
- awill 2y ago
  If true this would be a huge reason to get a kobo over a kindle. I use calibre and have owned multiple kindle and just plug in once every few months to copy books over usb.
- vincentkriek 2y ago
  Kobo Sync as it's called in the documentation (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integration https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...) works very well, and is very easily enabled (updating a single line in a config file on the ereader that appears when you mount it on your computer). It will convert books to Kepub automatically and you can select to only sync certain shelfs.
- thawawaycold 2y ago
  nice to know! would be great to have some similar degree of support for boox devices but I gather it would be much more fiddly
- latexr 2y ago
  > Getting stuff on the device is a bit of a hassle too, because I can't exactly go plug it in to my NAS Kobo can connect to Dropbox. They hide the option on older models but you can re-enable it with NickelMenu[1]. If you don’t want the Dropbox app installed on your machine, you can use Rclone[2] to sync files to it on demand. With a bit more setup, you can even set up Rclone on the Kobo itself and trigger it via NickelMenu to pull new books. This last part is a bit more involved. [1] https://pgaskin.net/NickelMenu/ https://pgaskin.net/NickelMenu/ [2] https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/

theshrike79 2y ago

I think you can use Calibre-web as a "store" for Kobo devices pretty easily (basically swap one URL in a config file on the device). I gave up on the synced reading position at the same time I sold my Kindle, but I can live with that. Getting stuff on the device is a bit of a hassle too, because I can't exactly go plug it in to my NAS, but exporting 50+ books to a directory and copying them manually takes a few minutes and I'm set for a year or more - so it's time well spent :D Having everything (except for comics) consolidated in one place is the main reason I tolerate Calibre's quirks and eccentricities. It's ... opinionated, but it's still by far the best tool available for the price.

awill 2y ago
If true this would be a huge reason to get a kobo over a kindle. I use calibre and have owned multiple kindle and just plug in once every few months to copy books over usb.
vincentkriek 2y ago
Kobo Sync as it's called in the documentation (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integration https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...) works very well, and is very easily enabled (updating a single line in a config file on the ereader that appears when you mount it on your computer). It will convert books to Kepub automatically and you can select to only sync certain shelfs.
thawawaycold 2y ago
nice to know! would be great to have some similar degree of support for boox devices but I gather it would be much more fiddly
latexr 2y ago
> Getting stuff on the device is a bit of a hassle too, because I can't exactly go plug it in to my NAS Kobo can connect to Dropbox. They hide the option on older models but you can re-enable it with NickelMenu[1]. If you don’t want the Dropbox app installed on your machine, you can use Rclone[2] to sync files to it on demand. With a bit more setup, you can even set up Rclone on the Kobo itself and trigger it via NickelMenu to pull new books. This last part is a bit more involved. [1] https://pgaskin.net/NickelMenu/ https://pgaskin.net/NickelMenu/ [2] https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/