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Originally Posted by fbrII
Jack,
I can only repeat what I said earlier. I have had no issues since I have been making conversions prior to downloading. There is a post under the calibre forum that goes into detail about the problem and its related to how the cover was attached or packaged in the epub.
It appears you and I are having different experiences with calibre. I don't doubt you are having issues and they may be related your specific mix of hardware, operating system, calibre version. I hope you will be able to work it out soon.
Harley,
I think the issue with covers, at least the issue I had with covers, in most cases will be fixed by doing a conversion from whatever you have to whatever you want. I don't think it matters much whether it is from lrf to epub, mobi to epub, epub to epub etc., As far as formatting issues (does it mess up anything else) I rarely reformat a PDF because I don't normally care for the results.
However, there is a new version of calibre 0.8.11 which preserves the original format when doing a conversion. I don't have any experience with it yet but if true, you should be able to reformat without risk. If you don't like the result you still have the original pdf version.
But check this all out by reading the change log at calibre's site. I did a quick review when I upgraded the new version today but I wasn't paying close attention.
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You can repeat all the conversions you want it wont make a diferance with the touch. The program Calibre corrupts the data to the touch period. I know I converted hundres of dif times dif ways it makes no dif. The books are nto at fault. The fault is the fact that calibre corrupts the metadata on the touch rendering your covers usless. Doing a Factory reset proves this as the books on the sd card are left intact and they are the ones pushed over by calibre. The proof is that as soon as the touch processes those files from calibre the covers are there . You can convert hundreds of times it wont make a dif untill the calibre drivers for the touch are fixed. untill then covers will be far and few inbetween. I have been down this road for weeks. Like I said factory reset proves this to be the case. AS soon as calibre interacts with your device covers wont show up on any new books and ereader storage errors occur.
CALIBRE CURRENTLY CORRUPTS THE META DATA TO THE READER.
Using calbire to manage your books is not an issue as you can save them to the disk. Then you can Just drag and drop them onto your reader... bypassing the problems that are currently caused by the touch drivers. Allowing calibre to interact with your reader will cause you countless headachs.
FBR your thinking is not flawed its just not correct. The problem is nto the epubs its how Calibre is handleing things. They have to fix the drivers. I am sorry but Calibre is defnatly not the end all of end all ebook management... Preety darn close though... It is The best there is really. What it does it does for the most part well. but currently it doenst handle the touch well.