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Old 01-22-2015, 12:33 AM   #794
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Originally Posted by JimMcLaren View Post
Probably yes. If you are in Nickel and connect to your PC Calibre will automatically detect your Kobo with one of the Kobo drivers it is delivered with. I'm talking about from within KSM you have to turn on USB support from the menu. I had to configure Calibre to detect my Kobo when I connected that way. You can skip the part about setting up the driver if you connect from Nickel. I don't know how reliably Calibre will detect whether a book is on the device or not. You'll also have to make a small change to the save template if you do it that way. But if it works it will certainly be easier that configuring the user defined driver.
I was wondering about that. You missed KSM step

An alternative way if you are not using nickel is to disable the KoboTouch driver in calibre. Then use "Connect to folder". That will prompt for the folder to treat as a device. You can use any folder on the device. Calibre will then scan the folder looking for books. I assume this will also need USB support enabled in the KSM menu, but, as I don't use KSM, I'm not sure.

The advantage of this for non-nickel users is that the KoboTouch reads the database on the device to get what books are on it. If you don't use nickel, the database won't be populated and calibre will not show any books on the device. Using "Connect to folder" means calibre can find the books on the device.
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