How to replace the book on Kobo device without losing the Annoations?

[codychan]

I know most likely the answer is no. But I still would like to ask this here.

This happens a lot to me. When I'm reading a book on Kobo, after I have read it for a while, there will be Reading Stats for this book such as reading position, total reading time, most importantly I may already have multiple "Annotations" or "Notes" inside the book, I notice I need to change the style of the book, such as the font is fixed I cannot change the font family on Kobo or I need to use different fonts for different sections in the book, or the line height and margin issues, or something like these. My current solution is, edit this book using Calibre's built-in program called "ebook-edit", connect Kobo with my PC, delete the book on Kobo and resend the modified book into my Kobo device, but if I use this solution, all info about this book on my Kobo device will be gone, especially the "Annotations/Notes".

So can I resend the modified book into my Kobo device without losing the "Annotations/Notes"?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by codychan

I know most likely the answer is no. But I still would like to ask this here.

This happens a lot to me. When I'm reading a book on Kobo, after I have read it for a while, there will be Reading Stats for this book such as reading position, total reading time, most importantly I may already have multiple "Annotations" or "Notes" inside the book, I notice I need to change the style of the book, such as the font is fixed I cannot change the font family on Kobo or I need to use different fonts for different sections in the book, or the line height and margin issues, or something like these. My current solution is, edit this book using Calibre's built-in program called "ebook-edit", connect Kobo with my PC, delete the book on Kobo and resend the modified book into my Kobo device, but if I use this solution, all info about this book on my Kobo device will be gone, especially the "Annotations/Notes".

So can I resend the modified book into my Kobo device without losing the "Annotations/Notes"?

If you haven't modified the ToC, split files or other major surgery, you could check Do not treat replacements as new books checkbox on the Collections, covers & uploads tab of either the KoboTouch or KoboTouchExtended driver. Basically, don't delete the book, just resend the modified copy.

[codychan]

Originally Posted by DNSB

If you haven't modified the ToC, split files or other major surgery, you could check Do not treat replacements as new books checkbox on the Collections, covers & uploads tab of either the KoboTouch or KoboTouchExtended driver. Basically, don't delete the book, just resend the modified copy.

Thanks, already checked that option.

Just tried it, do some simple edits like line-height/font-size/font-family/margin, resend the book, the position and annotations are still there.

Sometimes I delete html/css/image/font in the book or even regenerate the whole ToC or use something like `page-break-before:always` in css which will split html, I'll do more tests when such things happen.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by codychan

I know most likely the answer is no. But I still would like to ask this here.

This happens a lot to me. When I'm reading a book on Kobo, after I have read it for a while, there will be Reading Stats for this book such as reading position, total reading time, most importantly I may already have multiple "Annotations" or "Notes" inside the book, I notice I need to change the style of the book, such as the font is fixed I cannot change the font family on Kobo or I need to use different fonts for different sections in the book, or the line height and margin issues, or something like these. My current solution is, edit this book using Calibre's built-in program called "ebook-edit", connect Kobo with my PC, delete the book on Kobo and resend the modified book into my Kobo device, but if I use this solution, all info about this book on my Kobo device will be gone, especially the "Annotations/Notes".

So can I resend the modified book into my Kobo device without losing the "Annotations/Notes"?

Just do the editing before you send the eBooks to your Kobo. In most cases, there is going to be poor formatting that you'll want to fix. I do this and I get a very good reading experience.