Thread: Important warning from Calibre about firmware 2.0
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Old 07-18-2012, 11:35 PM   #52
davidfor
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I posted this in the calibre forum at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=185229, but I will repeat it here as this is a good place for it.


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Checking my Kobo Touch and backups of the database I have made for the firmware and DBVersion:

- Firmware 1.9.17 has DBVersion 50
- Firmware 2.0.0 has DBVersion 53

I have another older database with DBVersion 36. I think this is from firmware 1.9.16.

calibre is looking for DBVersion 33 (line 30 of devices/kobo/driver.py).

I am using calibre 0.8.60 with firmware 2.0.0 with no problems so far. Looking at the code for the driver, it isn't looking at the changed parts of the database. I did turn off the loading of cover images as the new firmware handles this better than the old. I also have the "Metadata Management" set to manual so I don't think calibre attempts to write to the database at all.

I'm hoping someone takes up the challenge to update the driver. There is a couple of things that would be good to do. Bookshelves were added with 2.0.0 so it would be nice to be able to use these.
Someone has raised bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+...3?comments=all. The Kobo device developer for calibre has stated he won't be able to do anything for a few weeks. Maybe someone else will.
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