Thread: Touch Firmware 2.1.5 - Thanks
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Old 10-22-2012, 11:23 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by MisterBuggie View Post
Ahhhh, finally it all makes sense. Thanks david
Glad to be able to help.
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I think I might take a look at that plugin, now I know that for the versions on my PC, the cover hasn't really been changed. I would prefer the epub on my PC to be updated.
There are a lot of good plugins for calibre. There is a list in the calibre forum to look at.
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I'm really going to have to try and get into the workings of epubs and all that's possible. There's something I would love to see added to the epub, and that's extra content brought up by a tap on a name. A place name would bring up the map (especially useful when you're reading the fantasy or sci-fi genre), a tap on a character name would bring up a partial bio with the main info up until that point in the book (I'm bad with names). I'm not sure how much could be added into the epub itself, and how much would require changes to the reader's software.
If you want to look at the epub under the covers, right click on it in calibre and select "Tweak Book" and then select the explode option. This unzips the epub and shows you the contents to look at. Or, get Sigil which is an excellent epub editor.

I've seen something like what you want to do in a copy of "A Game of Thrones". Unfortunately, the info doesn't get shown in a popup. It goes to the page the info is on and you need to press a back button to get back to the text. Footnotes are done the same way in epubs.
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But anyhow, about my little problem with covers not showing up. Does anything seem amiss with the info I posted earlier?

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Okay, I'm not sure what to check to see if something's taking up too much memory. I have over 1 GB free on main memory. I have around 200 books. The koboreader.sqlite file is 10 MB. However the .kobo/images folder is about 35 MB with 1149 .parsed files in it - 370 are from my books (the book title is in the file name), what on earth are the rest of them for?
I just had a look at my .kobo/image directory. 1702 files of witch 1029 are for my books. The rest as split between covers for kepubs (including previews), the Kobo previews and what looks like the reading life awards That agrees roughly with your counts. You have plenty of space free on the device.

When I mentioned memory before, I was also thinking of the memory used while the device is running. The equivalent of the PCs RAM. With a lot of books, this could run out as well, but, you are nowhere near that (I've talked to someone with 5000 books on the device). If the covers are all displaying OK now, I'd ignore the original problem unless it happens again.
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