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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Trying to use a large collection of ebook files on an external uSD card causes the Kobo device to process the file data into its database. In the case of any number of files over ~500, the processing display will progress in a normal fashon until it reaches "85% complete" then there is no further indication that any processing is underway. At this time, it is over seven hours and my AuraHD is still displaying "Processing content, One moment please..., 85% complete". This unchanging display gives no indication whether any actual processing is still happening.
One solution is to use "giorgio130"'s port of KoReader to the Kobo, which has a normal File Manager to access the files and doesn't engage in the "Processing" that the "normal" software on the Kobos is so committed to. (KoReader made an ~8000 ebook collection on an external uSD card available for file selection and reading, in a couple of seconds.)
Has anyone found another approach that allows for the use of a large number of ebooks?
Or an explanation of how and why this is occurring?
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I've stuffed over 7,000 books onto an Aura using an uSD card without any hanging issues. Generally, when the processing hangs, it's a pretty good indicator that an epub that has issues is hanging the process. Sometime, if you do a pinhole reset, it will skip that book, otherwise you will need to remove that book. Locating a corrupted book is a bit of fun.
Alternately, you might want to place the books onto your Aura in smaller quantities until you locate the book(s) that causes the hang or use other programs to check the epubs for issues.
The approach I've been using lately is to use the Kobo Touch Extended driver. It will stop on most corrupted files and complain about them. Remove the corrupted file from the list to be sent to your Kobo and try again. Keep track of the corrupted files for later clean up/removal/recycling of electrons.
My two favourite checkers FlightCrew (downloadable from
http://code.google.com/p/flightcrew/) and epubcheck (I use a batch file to check a mass of epubs though the log file tends to get very large and painful to read -- epubcheck is very fussy). For epubchecking a single file, I'd suggest the Pagina-epubcheck (downloadable from
http://www.pagina-online.de/software/epub-checker/) which gives a GUI wrapper around epubcheck which is handier for single files.
Regards,
David