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Old 09-21-2015, 06:49 PM   #20
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often View Post
I don't think the covers ever showed up. Why would the driver not be able to identify the cover? It shows in calibre and all links refer to the correct place within the file as far as I can see in Sigil. I don't think I've seen covers disappear yet... fingers crossed... sounds like an annoying frustrating weird bug.
The driver has to work out which image in the book is the cover. It does this by looking at the file name and some other thins. Sometimes, it cannot work out which is the cover and doesn't mark anything. If calibre has made any changes to the book, a conversion or updating the cover, it will be found, but I have few books that it didn't work for.
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Oooh the possibilities with Calibre and this plugin are just endless! I'm away for a few months and BAM I have no idea what's going on any more. Sounds absolutely delicious, I'm going to try this out. Thanks!
I would have said the database backup and reading position store have been in the plugin for at least a year, so maybe you were gone for longer than I thought!
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Shame about the statistics. I suppose it's understandable that it's not an easy thing to tweak because it's not made or tweaking at all. But with the high risk of factory reset necessity it would be nice if there were some way to put data back. But yes database backup is the way to go. It's the first thing I did after the corruption got fixed and I'll definitely do it more often. It would be so sad to lose all the reading session time... like your 999 hours (I saw in a different thread)! Did you ever find out if that was a weird glitch (like, Kobo can't count higher than 3 digits or something... haha) or your actual reading time?
I have looked at storing and restoring the stats, but I haven't seen a good way. It's close to being the full backup is the best way. It's definitely the simplest. Some do get restored from the Kobo server, but I haven't sat down and worked out what. I know some of the reading hours does as that 999 hours was a while ago with a factory reset since and I'm at 1001 hours today. I think after the factory reset it was in the low 900's but, I also have the other devices and I'm not sure what they all say.
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