Hi
I just bought a Kobo Aura H2O 2nd edition and I don't understand much.
tl;dr: I want a
hierarchical file structure on my Kobo device with the
file names showing up like on my PC and I want a
tagging system and
search for tags on my Kobo within that file structure.
Long version:
It told me to download a desktop app for my PC, did that and now what?
I don't want to buy any of those books there. I just want to
copy my existing file structure from my Windows PC to the reader. But this app doesn't allow me to drag and drop stuff. So I just copied my A:/ partition, which contains a well organized structure whit many subfolders, to the Kobo device when plugged in. I just opened Kobo in the explorer when the device is plugged in and copied everything in there. To me that seems a bit dilettanthish and not the way it should be done(?) Anyway, the documents show up on the reader after that, but
there is no file structure on my ereader and the
names of the files do not correspond with the names on my PC all the time. Seems like it's using some metadata to choose the filename on the reader and not the name I gave to the file in the explorer.
I
tried Calibre, but I don't see the point of that programm. Yes, it let's me rename the book and the author and will be shown on the ereader just like that, but it copies every book into it's own files with no hierarchy at all. If I used it, then I would have my own A:/ partition and a separate Calibre direction with the same data, but no hierarchy. Just a waste of space. (I know I must be wrong judging Calibre as useless, but so far I don't get the benefits of that programm).
I heard of
koreader, but in the forum it said that I have to install Kobo Start Menu 09 first and that is not available for my reader (yet?) (see here
https://github.com/koreader/koreader...n-Kobo-devices and then here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=293804 in the first post). Might that solve my problems? Again, I just want my file structure and my file names displayed on the reader.
Basically, my reader should look like the Windows Explorer.
An additional benefit would be a
tagging system. I have seen that in Calibre, but when I transfer the books with Calibre on my reader, I don't see how that tagging is useful. I can't search for tags, only title, author or series (whatever the last one is).
I've seen this article (
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/sub_groups.html). But I'm too dumb to understand it.
