Thread: sideloading versus synchronizing
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Old 07-20-2014, 08:20 PM   #5
davidfor
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Originally Posted by franklekens View Post
Up till now I always sideloaded my books via Calibre. I have an extension (I think it's the Kobo Utilities extension?) that uploads epubs as kepub, so I could benefit from the extra features like the per book statistics (how many minutes this chapter & the next will take, &c). Untill this week I had FW 2.8. On an Aura HD.
No, it is the KoboTouchExtended driver. That will convert to kepub as you send to the device. Or you are converting using the Kepub output driver and then sending with the standard KoboTouch driver.
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Now I've upgraded to 3.3. And once more the per book statistics seem to be available only for books that I download by synchronizing with the Kobo store. I.e. not for sideloaded books bought there or elsewhere. Even if they'd already been sideloaded as kepubs. Annoying.

Two questions:
1) Is there something to remedy this? Was there maybe a cfg file I had to edit for this? I forgot and it's not easy to find back in some of the lengthy threads here.
I assume you mean get the in-book statistics for sideloaded kepubs. If I can't help. Kobo turned them off saying they were prone to errors. Unless they change this, there isn't anything practical we can do. Experiments were made by several people, including myself and the developer of the KoboTouchExtended driver, but we concluded it wasn't safe or practical to do. There is a version of the KoboTouchExtended driver that does it, but it is not maintained. A search of this forum will find it.
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2) I'm willing to live with synchronizing too. As long as I can choose *which* books from my Kobo library I synchronize to my device.
Is there really no way to do that? I managed to synchronize only a single book now because it happened to be the first in line.
But is there no way to get a list of the books in the Kobo library and select which of those you want to download to the device?
Yes and no. If you buy a book from Kobo, it will be downloaded the next time you sync. The only way to stop this is to go to your library on the web site and delete the book from the "I'm Reading" list. If you don't do that, once the book is downloaded, you can delete it from the device. This will leave a record of the book in the library list and it can be downloaded later but it won't be synced to the device until you do. There is an option in the library settings to hide the non-downloaded books in the library lists.
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