calibre with Kindle2

test011 · 02-14-2010, 05:09 AM

I've been using this wonderful calibre for a couple of months, and really appreciate all the work. This is some software!

There are some odd things though. (Under OS Windows7 64bit, Korean edition)

1. When I hook up my Kindle there appears an icon that represents it, in the same row as red heart, with Eject arrow when you point at it. But Eject doesn't work. (I've reported this about a month ago. Maybe this is Windows7 specific problem. Doesn't get fixed.)

2. When you add an e-book - mobi,azw format with DRM or no DRM - sometimes it fails to read Meta data. Calire gives me an error. It says something about 'no permission' in some arbitrary folders (programs files, users, system32) This might be a Windows7 specific or a Plug-in problem (MobiDeDRM)

3. A suggestion. So, so many books sold from Amazon has "Author' field confused. It's always has lastname first with comma'ed first name like this 'Spangler, Ann'

Out of 87 books purchased from Amazon, only 2 of them properly had "firstname lastname" format in 'Author' field. All others, 85 books (and not to mention 23 books from manybooks.net) had 'lastname, firstname' format in the field.

I am not complaining the way they are put of course, I am suggesting maybe you can create a button to convert this automatically. Something like when you have 'Doe, John" in Author field, you hit it and get 'John Doe'. Such feature sure seems worth it.

kovidgoyal · 02-14-2010, 11:26 AM

1. this is a windows specific thing, unfortunately messing with the windows API to do this is a real pain, and I have higher priorities

2. definitely a problem with your mobidedrm plugin

3. Some people like using lastname, firstname in the author field, I don't want to force them not to.

Sydney's Mom · 02-14-2010, 04:01 PM

I'm using Windows 7 and mobi plugin 9. I don't have problems 1 and 2. As for problem 3, that is easy enough to change. I must say books from elsewhere seem to load much more easily.

bwaldron · 02-15-2010, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom

I'm using Windows 7 and mobi plugin 9. I don't have problems 1 and 2.

I have seen problem 2 with Win7 and the mobidedrm plugin; often enough that I've reverted to stripping DRM from the command line before importing into my Calibre library.

02-14-2010, 05:09 AM	#1
test011 Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 20728 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: K2i, K3(B006), KT(WiFi)	calibre with Kindle2 I've been using this wonderful calibre for a couple of months, and really appreciate all the work. This is some software! There are some odd things though. (Under OS Windows7 64bit, Korean edition) 1. When I hook up my Kindle there appears an icon that represents it, in the same row as red heart, with Eject arrow when you point at it. But Eject doesn't work. (I've reported this about a month ago. Maybe this is Windows7 specific problem. Doesn't get fixed.) 2. When you add an e-book - mobi,azw format with DRM or no DRM - sometimes it fails to read Meta data. Calire gives me an error. It says something about 'no permission' in some arbitrary folders (programs files, users, system32) This might be a Windows7 specific or a Plug-in problem (MobiDeDRM) 3. A suggestion. So, so many books sold from Amazon has "Author' field confused. It's always has lastname first with comma'ed first name like this 'Spangler, Ann' Out of 87 books purchased from Amazon, only 2 of them properly had "firstname lastname" format in 'Author' field. All others, 85 books (and not to mention 23 books from manybooks.net) had 'lastname, firstname' format in the field. I am not complaining the way they are put of course, I am suggesting maybe you can create a button to convert this automatically. Something like when you have 'Doe, John" in Author field, you hit it and get 'John Doe'. Such feature sure seems worth it.

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02-14-2010, 11:26 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	1. this is a windows specific thing, unfortunately messing with the windows API to do this is a real pain, and I have higher priorities 2. definitely a problem with your mobidedrm plugin 3. Some people like using lastname, firstname in the author field, I don't want to force them not to.

02-14-2010, 04:01 PM	#3
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,895 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	I'm using Windows 7 and mobi plugin 9. I don't have problems 1 and 2. As for problem 3, that is easy enough to change. I must say books from elsewhere seem to load much more easily.

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