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Originally Posted by davidfor
You should be able to copy any non-kepub book from a Kobo device to calibre. The "virtual book" error is only referring to kepubs. If you selected all the books in the device list, you should get an error for the kepubs, but the rest of the books should be copied with no problems. If you get an error for other book types, please report it so I can look into what is happening.
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Actually, one minor problem mostly due to author names. I have sideloaded quite a few book with multiple authors. When I copied from my Kobo to Calibre on my new laptop when I thought it was the easiest way to copy my current book set to a new laptop rather than copying the library on my home PC to the new laptop), I got a mass of books that were shown as not being present on the Kobo. For instance, my copy of 1633 which shows Eric Flint as the author in the author information and Flint, Eric in the file-as (author sort) field and David Weber as author in the extra information fields. When I copied the library from the Kobo to Calibre, the file name was changed from 1633 - Eric Flint & David Weber to 1633 - Eric Flint.
I do realize that Calibre has done this forever and I do see the arguments for how it handles file names, I still find it annoying that when I copy a book to Calibre, it sees the book as not being the same as the original file.
Regards,
David