![]() ![]() Locked into an update that doesn’t finish and any new Kobo books again stuck in Pending status. Spent a couple of days sorting them all back into my collections (these hadn’t updated either I use my Kobo for research work, hence the complexity of my Collections system). So I re-downloaded my Kobo ebooks – all good. After about a fortnight of to-ing and fro-ing with Kobo’s twitter customer support (sending error logs etc etc) they told me that the error was unrepairable, sent me a prepaid postage voucher to send it to their European HQ in the Netherlands, and posted me a new one. A week or two later the Libra stopped updating: it would start and then never finish, so that new books from Kobo would appear on the My Books list but were forever stuck in Pending mode, and the updates would go on for ever which drained the battery if I didn’t notice they were running for a while. 150 Kobo ebooks and c.400 ebooks from other sources, all backed up, so I just transferred them over. I bought a Libra about a year ago because I had manage to lose my Aura (sidenote: I found it about 10 months later it had dropped between the two panels of a double radiator and got cooked there all winter but STILL WORKED, which is pretty impressive. Overall the tool is quick to load, easy to understand and generally has an intuitive layout. The reading experience is pretty good too as it allows you the same level of customisation as if you were on your EReader, though personal preference here is reading from the device. Also I personally find it easier to shop for new EBooks using the tool rather than on the device directly, especially when I’m browsing. I tend to use this tool when I have a large number of books I want to add or remove. ![]() It’s free to download and runs on both Windows and Mac. So Kobo have created a pretty comprehensive tool called Kobo desktop which allows you to Buy books, read books and manage your Ereader. I’m a big fan of this as personally I don’t like to have books I’ve already read cluttering up my library whilst I’m trying to pick my next good read. For example, you could remove an EBook from your device and it would still be in the Kobo cloud. This means that if you fill up your Kobo, you can move items to and from the cloud seamlessly. Kobo provides every user of their EReaders, a cloud account which has unlimited storage.
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