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Droid · 10-03-2012, 05:21 PM

Don't delete anything! I have a solution, but it will take some time to type on my iPad. I will edit this message in a few minutes with the proper reply. Just thought I would make a quick note so you don't go doing anything unnecessarily!

Edit: calibre copies over the book (.epub, if you try copying a .mobi it will appear as a book, but won't open and will appear "empty" with no cover) along with a .jpg of the cover and a metadata file. Just delete the .jpg, since the kobo thinks that it is a normal photo, not a book cover. I used a command in Linux to recursively delete everything .jpg from the directory on my ereader, but as you likely have Windows, you must find some way to do it. Don't bother removing the metadata files, Kobo doesn't pay attention to them, I don't think.

Now you will have a bunch of stuff that doesn't exist in your library. To get this back to normal, try syncing it again. It will rescan your kobo and remove the jpg images since they no longer exist.

I don't know why you have three copies. Calibre just gave me 2. Maybe you tried this twice without syncing? Anyway, AI think that everything will be back to normal when you do this. Oh, maybe you have a .epub and .mobi version of the book, along with the .jpg? Remove all of the .mobi, since it is the Kindle format (and used to be compatible with Kobo Touch, at least with older firmware, I believe). Mobi is no longer compatible with Kobo. No big loss, since ePub is the standard!

10-03-2012, 05:21 PM	#2
Droid Member Posts: 16 Karma: 8302 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kobo Glo	Don't delete anything! I have a solution, but it will take some time to type on my iPad. I will edit this message in a few minutes with the proper reply. Just thought I would make a quick note so you don't go doing anything unnecessarily! Edit: calibre copies over the book (.epub, if you try copying a .mobi it will appear as a book, but won't open and will appear "empty" with no cover) along with a .jpg of the cover and a metadata file. Just delete the .jpg, since the kobo thinks that it is a normal photo, not a book cover. I used a command in Linux to recursively delete everything .jpg from the directory on my ereader, but as you likely have Windows, you must find some way to do it. Don't bother removing the metadata files, Kobo doesn't pay attention to them, I don't think. Now you will have a bunch of stuff that doesn't exist in your library. To get this back to normal, try syncing it again. It will rescan your kobo and remove the jpg images since they no longer exist. I don't know why you have three copies. Calibre just gave me 2. Maybe you tried this twice without syncing? Anyway, AI think that everything will be back to normal when you do this. Oh, maybe you have a .epub and .mobi version of the book, along with the .jpg? Remove all of the .mobi, since it is the Kindle format (and used to be compatible with Kobo Touch, at least with older firmware, I believe). Mobi is no longer compatible with Kobo. No big loss, since ePub is the standard! Last edited by Droid; 10-03-2012 at 05:34 PM.