Disable "Books on Device"?

robin58 · 10-17-2012, 10:56 AM

Is it possible to turn off Calibre finding the books on a device temporarily? Or restrict the type of documents/books it finds?

I've recently discovered when using the usb connection to put books on my wife's Kindle Fire that it is really becoming a very slow process because she has the Zinio magazine app on it which handles magazines provided by our library.

It appears that Zinio stores every page of every magazine as a separate document/jpg which are all found when Calibre goes to search for the books on the device. With just 6 magazines on her KF this amounted to a list of over 1300 "books" which quite frankly took eons to generate.

I realize I can avoid this by instead of using a usb connection, simply sending books to her kindle email address but she doesn't like books appearing as documents.

theducks · 10-17-2012, 11:05 AM

I think You want to remove the tick in the box shown

robin58 · 10-17-2012, 11:36 AM

Thank you. I knew it had to be in there somewhere. Blind as bat today apparantly

10-17-2012, 10:56 AM	#1
robin58 Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: iPad, Kindle Fire, Kindle PW, Nook ST	Disable "Books on Device"? Is it possible to turn off Calibre finding the books on a device temporarily? Or restrict the type of documents/books it finds? I've recently discovered when using the usb connection to put books on my wife's Kindle Fire that it is really becoming a very slow process because she has the Zinio magazine app on it which handles magazines provided by our library. It appears that Zinio stores every page of every magazine as a separate document/jpg which are all found when Calibre goes to search for the books on the device. With just 6 magazines on her KF this amounted to a list of over 1300 "books" which quite frankly took eons to generate. I realize I can avoid this by instead of using a usb connection, simply sending books to her kindle email address but she doesn't like books appearing as documents.

10-17-2012, 11:05 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,762 Karma: 54401244 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I think You want to remove the tick in the box shown Attached Thumbnails

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10-17-2012, 11:36 AM	#3
robin58 Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: iPad, Kindle Fire, Kindle PW, Nook ST	Thank you. I knew it had to be in there somewhere. Blind as bat today apparantly

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