Thread: Calibre 0.8.60 - Kobo database not fully supported
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Old 07-19-2012, 07:02 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Rob557 View Post
Thank you for the additional context and clarifications. I should have been clearer that I was referring to Kobo Touch.
Based on the context, I assumed it was a Kobo Touch.
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I came across the following tip (but don't have the link) which seems to solve the problem (hopefully without introducing risks). Under "preferences/ change calibre behavior/ advanced/ plugins/ Device Interface Plugins/ Kobo Reader Device Interface (1.0.13) by Timothy Legge" place a check beside "attempt to support newer firmware". The default appears to be to not have a check mark beside that item (or maybe the upgrade to Calibre 0.8.60 removes the checkmark?).
Umm, did you read the message that calibre displayed when it found the later DBVersion? It actually tells you that you can do this.
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(or maybe the upgrade to Calibre 0.8.60 removes the checkmark?).
It is a brand new check and option in calibre 0.8.60. There are no other changes made in the code (that I can see) for the Kobo driver. It works exactly the same as for 0.8.59 except for this.

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For users who do not use the new KoboT bookshelf feature, it seems to be the best thing to do if they are going to still use Calibre to load books onto Kobo, because even with the new warning message Calibre is loading files onto the KoboT, but just not providing confirmation on what books are already on the KoboT.
As there are no actual function changes in the calibre Kobo driver code, and Kobo Touch database has not changed in the areas that the driver touches, ticking the above checkbox and using the full function of calibre is the way to go. If you use the KT's bookshelves, it is still OK unless you delete the book via calibre. calibre doesn't go near these database tables that store the bookshelves. This means that if you do a delete, you might have some orphaned entries.

The only other thing to consider is not getting calibre to load the images. The handling of these with the Kobo 2.0.0 firmware is completely different and I don't think there is an advantage to having calibre create them.
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