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tamhas · 07-20-2014, 05:33 PM

I decided to update Calibre with some new titles in my Kindle today and have found some peculiarities. There were about 10 titles showing in the Kindle as not being in the library. This itself is not unusual, but the first two were books my wife had sent me by e-mail and thus would have been in Calibre prior to being loaded in the Kindle. I added them anyway and converted them to epub (I keep both formats for all books) and all seemed fine except that I had to correct the name from first last to last, first (R.E. Donald). The next book is one that I knew had started downloaded to the Kindle, but I also knew that I had loaded it to Calibre previously because I converted it to epub prior to a recent trip my wife took. I added it to the library and when trying to change the name from first last to last, first it said it couldn't do that because the file was busy.

Looking on the disk I see that I have both a Koryta, Michael folder with two books in it and a Michael Koryta folder which has only one book, the one I just loaded. I have the same situation with the R.E. Donald except there is only one book in the first last version. This latter could simply mean that I failed to fix this when I loaded on 6/29. Perhaps this means that I should have tried matching the library from the Kindle entry first ... and I will try that going forward, but now I have this mess to clean up.

I ran the Library Maintenance Check (had a hard time finding it until I unplugged the Kindle) and I have extra titles for the Koryta and one of the other author's books, an Extra Author for the first last of R.E. Donald. So, I deleted the unwanted first last folders, but now when I go to the Koryta, Michael entry in Calibre for the book I just reloaded, it shows only AZW3 in the formats on the right panel, even though there are both in the directory and if I try a convert to epub, it tells me the book has no ebooks so there is nothing to convert. I suppose I can clean this up by deleting that book from Calibre, reloading from the Kindle, and reconverting, but is there a more direct repair? The R.E. Donald books look OK.

07-20-2014, 05:33 PM	#1
tamhas Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Catalog oddities I decided to update Calibre with some new titles in my Kindle today and have found some peculiarities. There were about 10 titles showing in the Kindle as not being in the library. This itself is not unusual, but the first two were books my wife had sent me by e-mail and thus would have been in Calibre prior to being loaded in the Kindle. I added them anyway and converted them to epub (I keep both formats for all books) and all seemed fine except that I had to correct the name from first last to last, first (R.E. Donald). The next book is one that I knew had started downloaded to the Kindle, but I also knew that I had loaded it to Calibre previously because I converted it to epub prior to a recent trip my wife took. I added it to the library and when trying to change the name from first last to last, first it said it couldn't do that because the file was busy. Looking on the disk I see that I have both a Koryta, Michael folder with two books in it and a Michael Koryta folder which has only one book, the one I just loaded. I have the same situation with the R.E. Donald except there is only one book in the first last version. This latter could simply mean that I failed to fix this when I loaded on 6/29. Perhaps this means that I should have tried matching the library from the Kindle entry first ... and I will try that going forward, but now I have this mess to clean up. I ran the Library Maintenance Check (had a hard time finding it until I unplugged the Kindle) and I have extra titles for the Koryta and one of the other author's books, an Extra Author for the first last of R.E. Donald. So, I deleted the unwanted first last folders, but now when I go to the Koryta, Michael entry in Calibre for the book I just reloaded, it shows only AZW3 in the formats on the right panel, even though there are both in the directory and if I try a convert to epub, it tells me the book has no ebooks so there is nothing to convert. I suppose I can clean this up by deleting that book from Calibre, reloading from the Kindle, and reconverting, but is there a more direct repair? The R.E. Donald books look OK.