Thread: Calibre 0.8.60 - Kobo database not fully supported
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Old 07-19-2012, 08:26 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by eddie19 View Post
I have recently updated my KT to firmware v2.0 and got the Calibre message about the unsupported Kobo database. I followed your 'tip' report and checked the box "attempt to support newer firmware" in the Calibre preferences. It seemed to work and with the Kobo attached a number of books in the Calibre library had a tick against them with either 'Main' or 'Card A', but not all, even though all are in the Kobo library. Any idea why they are not all recorded?
I think it means that there is a mismatch between the metadata in the calibre library and what is on the KT. I have had a few cases like this where I changed the author_sort for an author after the epub was sent to the KT. calibre also puts a file called "metadata.calibre" in the root directory of the device and the memory card. I am sure I seen a recent explanation that this is also used in the matching, but I can't find it right now.

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If they are recognized in Calibre does that mean I can edit the metadata of files on the Kobo?
Not really. calibre will edit the metadata in its library. You can then send this to the Kobo. But, the Kobo does not read this again after the first time it sees the file. This might have changed with the new firmware, but I haven't done enough experiments to find out what the new firmware is doing.
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