Thread: Aura HD Aura HD can't see books added from Calibre
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Old 06-11-2013, 10:36 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by mazaya View Post
I have a few books on Caliber that I am trying to send over to my Kobo Aura HD. It's my first time attempting this, I had no problem adding books from the Kobo Desktop. I feel this should be really simple but somehow it's not working.

Here are the steps that I tried:
1. I open Calibre see books in my Calibre Library that I want to transfer.
2. I plug in my Kobo and I am asked if I want to connect to my computer, I click 'Connect'
3. The device is detected by my computer and also appears on Calibre.
4. I right-click on the book that I want to send from my Calibre library to my Kobo and choose Send to device > Send to main memory (the other memory options are grayed out because I don't use an external SD card)
5. When I click on 'My device' in Calibre, I see the new book I added
6. I eject my Kobo from Calibre and unplug it from my computer
7. I turn on my Kobo and look under Library but I see only the books I transferred from Kobo Desktop.
All that is what you should do and should work.
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When I look under Computer > KOBOeReader, I see folders named after the author. Inside those folders are the epub files.
That proves the calibre is putting them onto the device correctly.
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When I look under Computer > KOBOeReader > .kobo > kepub, I think I found the books that I purchased from Kobo Desktop. I tried copy/pasting the epub files in there but my Kobo still doesn't see it.
That is correct. And the device does not look inside the .kobo directory for sideloaded books.
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I read a few threads about people who had the same problem with different Kobo eReaders but it looks like their solutions don't work for me or I'm not doing it right.

If someone could explain simply how to fix this problem, I would really appreciate it.
This usually means there is something wrong with one or more of the epubs. When it sees new books, the device processes them and adds them to the internal database. This is used for the library lists you see when using it. But, if the book has some sort of error in it, this can prevent the processing of that book. And, it prevents any other new book from being processed correctly.

The thing to do now is to remove those books from the device, and then send one or two other books. See if those get processed correctly. If they do, we can look at the others and see what went wrong.
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