Thread: [GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities
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Old 07-03-2015, 08:10 AM   #972
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Francois_C View Post
I also do frequent replaces of a book with an improved version, not twice a month but often twice a day, but I didn't even notice that Calibre had been mended since the time it created a new entry every time you would upload a book without deleting the previous one!
When was it doing this? It should never have done this unless you changed the metadata that is used in the save template. Or you send a different format.
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So I still remove the previous version before updating with the new one, and I did not think to regret to see it considered new: I only kept in mind the chapter I was reading.
But I never update the metadata either. If the cover has been changed and the old one still appears, I switch off the Kobo off and the new one is displayed at restart.
I never experienced a 2-hour wait (we are avid readers and own three different Kobos), except when I start the Kobo with 200 new books on the SD card at once.
The simplest way to update a slightly modified ebook and keep bookmarks and annotations is to overwrite it directly from the HD to the Kobo without using Calibre nor Kobo utilities! The only risk is that bookmarks may become slightly wrong.
That should only work if the file size of the book has not changed. Unless you are on a very old firmware. I hadn't checked for a while, but a test right now showed that this is still happening. Calibre avoids this by updating the file size in the database so the book doesn't get reprocessed and hence the bookmarks and reading status are not lost.
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