09-28-2010, 11:18 PM | #1 |
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Getting very cranky
Half of my books are only half books! I will get to read 5-6 chapters (sometimes not so much) and then the next chapters are blank or gibberish. I am running 1.4. The books are ones I read before so I know they worked at one point. They were uninstalled and then reinstalled. I have tried syncing several times and sometimes I get a little more and sometimes I don't.
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09-28-2010, 11:25 PM | #2 |
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Try and transfer them via Calibre and see how it goes. Might be the ADE or Kobo desktop causing the issue.
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09-28-2010, 11:33 PM | #3 |
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I am not all that tech savvy. I do not want to have to download another software. Why can't the one made for my reader do it? (not meaning to snark at you, i get very snippy when I have nothing to read,)
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09-28-2010, 11:43 PM | #4 |
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Can you provide a little more detail? Are you having problem with books purchased from and transferred with the Kobo software? Are these ePubs or PDF?
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09-28-2010, 11:46 PM | #5 |
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These are books I bought off of Kobobooks.com and transferred the only way I know how, the software that was built into the reader. I have done this more than 20 times. These books HAVE worked before and after the last time I charged the device and started re-reading a book, half of it was not there.
I have updated my library and synced my device several times since finding the error and the only difference was one more chapter showed up in the book I am reading. Several chapters before and after it are blank. |
09-29-2010, 12:12 AM | #6 |
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This sounds like it is books in Kobo format, and not ePub. Probably a corrupted database?
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09-29-2010, 01:01 AM | #7 | |
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I have a Sony reader as well and the software is patchy at best. So dodgy bundled software can be an issue for all ereaders. Kobo does not have a native closed format. It uses ADE ePUB for it's main format. |
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09-29-2010, 07:24 AM | #8 |
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09-29-2010, 08:30 AM | #9 |
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They are preloaded books. Can you buy sqlite ebooks "off the shelf"?
I am not so sure you actually can. |
09-29-2010, 10:09 AM | #10 | |
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As for Limmer I would try to dump the database and reset it to factory defaults (see sticky thread at the top of this forum, it has easy to follow instructions) and see if it's still a problem. If it is then return your reader post haste sir! |
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09-29-2010, 10:41 AM | #11 |
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There you go. I do not use any software supplied by my readers as I prefer ePUB. All the ereaders we have in the house can thus read the books in our library.
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09-29-2010, 11:24 AM | #12 |
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when you buy the book on kobo dont use the kobo software. Log into kobo books with your web browser adn choose the epub purchase option. Then you can use ADE to load it onto your kobo. It may be that if you already bought the book through your kobo software that you can also download the epub from your browser but I am not sure about that.
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09-29-2010, 01:31 PM | #13 | |
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One difference between Kobo and ePub format is that all ePubs I've read have fixed page numbers so you can be on the same page number for 2 or 3 page turns; and therefore you can tell what page of the book, not chapter, you are on. |
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09-30-2010, 07:17 AM | #14 |
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Actually, the biggest difference is, EPUB supports images, the native kobo format doesn't.
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