Libra 2 Transfer of library of books

[davidrichards27]

Hi Guys!
I have had my Libra2 for a couple of years now and suffice to say I have 'lots' (a few thousand)of books, many, many sideloaded and organised into lots of collections.

I am going to be upgrading to a Libra Colrour soon and I am wondering if there is a simple way to just mirror my existing collections straight onto the new reader without having to replicate every collection manually?

Any ideas gratefully received

Thanks a lot

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by davidrichards27

Hi Guys!
I have had my Libra2 for a couple of years now and suffice to say I have 'lots' (a few thousand)of books, many, many sideloaded and organised into lots of collections.

I am going to be upgrading to a Libra Colrour soon and I am wondering if there is a simple way to just mirror my existing collections straight onto the new reader without having to replicate every collection manually?

Any ideas gratefully received

Thanks a lot

It's not an upgrade to a Libra Colour if these books are just text. For B&W text, the Libra Colour is about 20-30% darker then the Libra 2.

Do you have all of these eBooks in calibre?

If you do, it's an easy solution. You would need to use Kobo Utilities to pull in your reading positions. Also use Reading List to mark which books are on your Libra 2. You will need to configure some custom columns for this.

You can then put all of those eBooks on your Libra Colour, and push the reading positions.

You will lose any annotations.

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The Libra Colour only adds 150 dpi colour and has poorer mono resolution than a mono only 300 dpi panel and a darker screen with less contrast because each pixel has a printed coloured dot in it (not covering it entirely). It's also very poor colour.

Because of the insistence of having a 300 dpi mono mode there are artefacts in mono. There should only be 150 dpi mode, perhaps that's what the anti-rainbow setting does. But because the colour dots don't fully cover the pixels (so as to mitigate darkness), you can get a kind of grid artefact anyway.

So the only real upgrade is the pastel to shades of murk colour, about 4000 including grey or greyish shades, compared to 32,000 PC high colour, 16,700,000 "true colour" or even more on HDR screens,

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

You can then put all of those eBooks on your Libra Colour, and push the reading positions.

You will lose any annotations.

Yes, though the annotations can be saved to the computer, just not written back to another Kobo.