Kobo Libra Colour eReader

Deva2005

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

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There is supposed to be a secret special way with calibre*, but when I just used calibre to transfer all my books to the colour, all the collections transferred, but they were empty. It speeded things up a lot as I only had to populate them.

I think if you copy all the books from your old device into calibre, and then send them all to the new one it should transfer the collections, as far as I can tell they are called shelves.

Make sure you are using the kobo plug-ins so all the books transfer as kepubs then the page counters work properly.

I'm pleased with the Libre colour, even though the screen is tiny and it only has a miniscule amount of storage. Some other boys & girls complain about the lower contrast, washed out colours and grainy appearance, but I like it, it is like reading a newspaper or the Beano. The splashes of colour for the covers are nice too.

* Have a look here

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193184&highlight=collections

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/p6hxav/how_can_i_manage_collections_with_calibre/

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/j0efi4/collection_management_on_calibre/