[meandher57]

Sorry for the long winded post...

I haven't been using Calibre for a while, simply because it seemed to take forever to load the metadata file to my Kobo. This morning I decided to clean up a couple of ebooks I had downloaded without covers.

Calibre prompted me to download an update, which I did. Plugged in my wifi Kobo and suddenly some sort of error message appeared. Didn't quite catch it, but a yellow exclamation mark (!) error symbol also showed up in my system tray. Disconnected, reconnected, and couldn't access any of the books on the SD card. Clicking on the icon for the SD card brought... nothing.

So I disconnected and let the Kobo reboot. It took forever to go through the "updating" process, even though I hadn't actually changed anything. Half an hour later, it finally finished that process but anything I had previously saved on the SD card wasn't showing up. Rebooted again.... same half hour procedure... and still none of my new books showed up.

When it finally came back up a 3rd time, I moved all the books off the SD card and reformatted it.

Side loaded two books back into it (drag and drop)... took a few minutes for it to add new content, but the two new books never did show up.

I have done the two click reset... and the paperclip reset... and neither has helped. I am afraid to do the factory reset because then I might lose not only the 400 books that are still on the Kobo's main memory... but if the factory reset doesn't do the trick, then I may never be able to add any books back.

Any profound thoughts?

(at least I still have 400 books to read....)

UPDATE: Discovered last night that my Kobo wouldn't remember what book I was reading... or what page I was on. So I ended up doing the factory reset. Seems to be functioning but when I sideloaded a few epubs onto my SD card, they never showed up on the Kobo menu. ALSO... the option to show "only my books" is greyed out for some reason.

FURTHER UPDATE: Last night I managed to add a few epubs to the main memory. This morning, I can't duplicate that feat. Added new books... they don't show up. Tried putting them on the freshly reformatted SD card... they don't show up in the Kobo.