Thread: Populating Calibre with books already on my Kobo
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Old 07-25-2012, 03:44 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by camtosh View Post
Last week, with Calibre 0.8.61 installed, I was seeing an error that said "Calibre not configured for this version of the Kobo touch" or something like that. So I thought it had to do with the 2.0.0 bugginess.
Today, I uninstalled .61 and installed 0.8.59.msi version of Calibre, and also noticed the plug-in for KT. I clicked to install that plug-in.
I uninstalled the Kobo desktop software (to avoid the Rakuten mess).
I plugged in my KT to the computer. Calibre detected it.
Now when I clicked on Device->show books in library, it showed me a list of the books, not sure if it was complete.
I then clicked "Get books from device" and it loaded 39 sideloaded epubs and a few pdfs, and a few corrupted files that I think might be the kepubs that were on the device?? (the title is 6 characters, like msmsxt, and the filetype is unknown)
So now most of the books on my KT are showing up in the Calibre library.
Do you think that the Kobo plug-in was not installed last week so it didn't see the books on my KT? If so, then the .61 version should be ok if I again install the Kobo plug-in. Or do the plug-ins stay installed if I upgrade to the latest version? befuddled.
The only difference between calibre 0.8.61 and the earlier versions of the Kobo driver is a warning and an associated option. The warning is triggered if the DBVersion of the database on the Kobo is higher than a certain value. Other than this, the driver works the same as before. There is an option in the drivers configuration to ignore this. Setting this will mean that calibre works with the Kobo Touch exactly the same as earlier versions of calibre.

The DBVersion that calibre is looking for is very old. It is from a firmware version before 1.9.16. The parts of the database that calibre touches have not changed, so everything is OK.

And so that you know, I am using calibre 0.8.61 with the Kobo 2.0.2 firmware with no problems.
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