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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
*sigh* Wish calibre would do the sane thing and just treat the Kobo like a regular FAT32 mass storage device (or two devices, if there's a microSD card in). It's not as if the epubs need to be specially-formatted or placed in a special location in the directory structure (they can just be dumped in the base directory, or in subdirs off of it - as long as they don't get too deep, the device doesn't care).
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In that case, disable the Kobo Touch driver and let calibre treat the device as a mass storage device.
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And there's nothing difficult about deleting files. The Kobo won't mind if the database doesn't get updated, as proven when I delete things manually through Windows.
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In earlier firmware versions, if you deleted a book from the drive, the database didn't get cleaned up until you tried to open the book. So deleting a book cleanly did need more. I hadn't noticed this change in the firmware, so I might have to look at the deletion again.
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If calibre would just stop trying to get fancy with shelves and annotations and crap like that, everything would be fine. :/
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To be honest, that isn't calibre, that is me. I wanted shelves, series info and some other things. And so did a lot of other people. I fixed the driver so that I could use it and added these options. They seem to be popular additions. But you can ignore all these options by simply not setting them. And set the metadata management to manual.
Annotations are a little different. They were already in the driver when I started. I don't like how it is done and don't use them. But, I make sure it works if someone points out a problem. I also keep looking for a better way to do it, but I haven't come up with a way I like.
And don't tell me that these are useless options. Each time a new function is added to the firmware, someone asks for an easy way to use them. If I can work out how to do them, I add it. But, I try to make sure it doesn't affect any existing function.
Lastly, the driver isn't broken. There is a check to make sure that there driver understands the database. This is in case Kobo put out a change to the firmware that makes a lot of changes. So far, they haven't. The database is not changing very fast and I have kept ahead of the released firmware. Until the next calibre release, set the "support newer firmware" option and everything will be OK.