Thread: Sony PRS-T1 in Calibre
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Old 10-08-2011, 12:15 PM   #64
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Device: Sony PRS-T1
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Originally Posted by Kolenka View Post
The Sony will notice there is no thumbnail and generate it, like with earlier models. The filesystem scanner only adds the book to the database, and the software will load/generate the thumbnail as-needed. It's cleaner that way.

The T1 will perform a scan anyhow, but it won't find anything to do, and your collections/etc will be available immediately while the scan happens in the background.
Sounds good. Makes sense that it always will scan always after unplugging USB since they need to detect any changes to file system to support drag and drop to filesystem functionality, but as you mention there will be no additional work to do since all new files added by calibre will already be in the database.

This is great since no functionality of existing T1 driver is lost, and eventually when calibre library image for thumbnail support is added, will be a very nice feature that we can eliminate the step of tweaking the epub to change the cover image.

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Also, looks like detection of books being in your library isn't great when plugging in a device, due to the Sony only storing the first author in the database. Not sure of a good way to tackle that.
I haven't noticed this yet with current beta, and did some digging to see how it works with standard file system.

If you have a epub with multiple authors delimited by ampersand (&) in calibre, it gets loaded by firmware filesystem scanner as you mentioned, with only the first author listed on the main book view. Interesting thing is if you open book, and go Menu -> More -> Setting -> Info, it shows all the authors, this time delimited by comma (,). I did check my books table, and there is single row for the book, and only the first author listed. My guess is on info screen it actually reads epub metadata.

This book correctly is detected as being in my library in current calibre beta also, so maybe there is some other variables besides the authors exact match that is causing your book to not be detected properly in calibre library as being on the device?
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