Need Advice regarding reading in the summer

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by MRM66

I only have calibre 4.15.
As it works well to convert and am worried to change it as am an oldie.
Can I still install the Kobo Utilities?
Only have just ordered the Kobo Clara Colour

There is no reason at all not to upgrade. What OS are you running?

[MRM66]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is no reason at all not to upgrade. What OS are you running?

Windows 11.
All I know is I installed calibre years ago and also an Alf plug in.
They both work well stil.l
Am nervous about change as I love my books being in calibre.

All I basically want to do I is get the Kobo and side-line books I have, and read them.
As my old kindle doesnt like to charge anymore.
Im an oldie so struggle more nowadays.

My motto is--Don't get old!

[Quoth]

Upgrade to Win11 is more risk than Calibre upgrade

[chaley]

Originally Posted by MRM66

I only have calibre 4.15.
As it works well to convert and am worried to change it as am an oldie.
Can I still install the Kobo Utilities?
Only have just ordered the Kobo Clara Colour

As DNSB said, you must upgrade calibre to at least version 7.9 in order to load books onto a libra colour with calibre. If you are unwilling to upgrade then don't buy that reader.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by chaley

As DNSB said, you must upgrade calibre to at least version 7.9 in order to load books onto a libra colour with calibre. If you are unwilling to upgrade then don't buy that reader.

Or just sideload to it without connecting it to calibre.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Or just sideload to it without connecting it to calibre.

Does that work with metadata such as collections, series, etc?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by chaley

Does that work with metadata such as collections, series, etc?

No idea, but the OP didn't say they require that. As I understand, they just want to get the books to the device somehow.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by chaley

As DNSB said, you must upgrade calibre to at least version 7.9 in order to load books onto a libra colour with calibre. If you are unwilling to upgrade then don't buy that reader.

Or use Calibre Save to Disk and pretend it's a drive, or copy via filemanager from a folder.

The only really awkward ereader or gadget I met was the reMarkable. It only used netwoking and your web browser!

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by chaley

Does that work with metadata such as collections, series, etc?

No collections or series, just title & author.

Personally I like having the collection(s), series, subtitle, blurb etc all settable in Calibre and automatically set on the ereader. So I only use other than Kobo eink for testing or technical PDFs, or preview POD PDFs.
Kobo + Calibre is a winning combination for epub novels. Of course I convert via docx from saved websites and azw3/mobi from Amazon to epub.

[MRM66]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Or just sideload to it without connecting it to calibre.

That would be perfect
As that's what I have been doing with my old kindle. Putting a few books into a folder and dragging and dropping.
But not sure where the kobo folder I need to use is.

I could maybe try it with calibre later

[theducks]

Originally Posted by MRM66

Windows 11.
All I know is I installed calibre years ago and also an Alf plug in.
They both work well stil.l
Am nervous about change as I love my books being in calibre.

All I basically want to do I is get the Kobo and side-line books I have, and read them.
As my old kindle doesnt like to charge anymore.
Im an oldie so struggle more nowadays.

My motto is--Don't get old!

You are at Windows 11 already. So being modern (so you can get the best from Calibre) is possible.
1) Simply backup your Libraries to an external drive
2) remember to also backup the configuration folder
3) install Calibre 7.11 (or later for those that find this thread)
4) Replace your old Alf's with NoDRM (https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases)
5) Add Kobo Utilities and the Extended edition, optionally the KePub... plugins (all except NoDRM are on the Get Plugins menu)

That should be it. Modern and current features (and you have that backup for later 'just in cases')

BTW there are quite a few of us here, that were born before 1960 .

[MRM66]

Alright I have messed up already
Kobo just came.
i plugged it in and set up the wi fi...3 times. thats all it asks me to do

[MRM66]

Originally Posted by MRM66

Alright I have messed up already
Kobo just came.
i plugged it in and set up the wi fi...3 times. thats all it asks me to do

Don't know what I have done but managed to drop 3 of my books into the kobo folder yippee
Can now actually see the books folders screen.

But can't understand why kobo does not show up as an external on my pc, as when I plugged the kindle in it always did.
So not sure how to add more books.
But there is always another day lol

[MRM66]

Originally Posted by theducks

You are at Windows 11 already. So being modern (so you can get the best from Calibre) is possible.
1) Simply backup your Libraries to an external drive
2) remember to also backup the configuration folder
3) install Calibre 7.11 (or later for those that find this thread)
4) Replace your old Alf's with NoDRM (https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases)
5) Add Kobo Utilities and the Extended edition, optionally the KePub... plugins (all except NoDRM are on the Get Plugins menu)

That should be it. Modern and current features (and you have that backup for later 'just in cases')

BTW there are quite a few of us here, that were born before 1960 .

Thanks for all that, I may actually have a go once I have figured out the Kobo
And having a good day without my bad back.

[theducks]

You can't unleash the all features of the Kobo with an old Calibre.
Kobo supports Series (remember, this needs you to eject, wait for the 'processing' to complete, then you reconnect and wait for 0 jobs in Calibre (that indicates the additional data has finished being sent).
The rest is controlled by the Kobo Menus.
Note: There are 2 layers on what you can do.
1) is from the Library view. This is the overall one for your device.
2) during a Book is more of the margins and fonts like your Kindle had.