Thread: Touch Stupid Kobo Touch stuck checking for books
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Old 08-22-2012, 03:02 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by phoenix6911 View Post
Nope. I read it on this kobo before. I'm only trying to sync because I figured if anything worked it should.

Tried Calibre but it doesn't show it on the device. I eject and go into the Kobo and it's not in the library. On the home screen their is an icon of a black book (along with Quick Toor and Kobo Read On) that if I click on the device freezes then reboots. The book I tried to load was originally in mobi (which should work) but I converted to epub and deleted the mobi version.
That black book and reboot means that the Touch had what it thought was a book, but when you started reading it, there was a problem. Deleting a book that the Touch knows about using the PC (not the Kobo desktop or calibre) could be it, but I doesn't usually reboot. Editing a book that the Touch knows about has in the past. But, with FW 2.0.x, the Touch will frequently delete these when it starts.

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Ok using Calibre and not setting up the Kobo with the desktop, I right-click on a book and choose send to device. I click on the device icon and I see it there. I did this with 3 books and see all three on the device. They're by the same author so when I open the Kobo to see all the files I see all three books in their own folder named after the author. All three are in epub format.

I eject the device and remove the usb cord. On the kobo I X out of the setup again and I'm on the home screen. It shows three "books". The quick tour, kobo read on, and the blank black one. Under Home/Library it shows only the first two books. No where are the three I tried to move to the device.
There is probably something wrong with one or all of the books. The Touch process all the new books and puts info about them in its database. This is what is displayed in the library. With the 1.9.x firmwares, the Touch could hang doing the processing and it had to be restarted. Or it would just not process that book and all the others after it. Then you needed to send the books over one at a time to see which was the problem. With the 2.0.x firmware, it seems a little more robust. I think it is hanging less often but, it seems to delete books it doesn't like.

Determining the problem with the books could be hard. The few times I have seen this it was an obvious error in the construction of the epub. epubs converted by calibre are usually OK, so that is a bit strange.
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