Thread: Aura Need help with Calibre
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Old 10-15-2015, 11:12 PM   #7
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Diruuo View Post
I never posted an update to this so I'll do it now just so that the thread has some closure.

I have continued using Calibre, most of my problems stemmed from having side-loaded books that Calibre identified as being both in the library and on the device, so it never sent them
Calibre doesn't automatically send any books. And having books on the device that match books in the calibre library does not stop you from sending the books from calibre again. And calibre matches the books on the device to books in your library so that you know what is where and and can work out what you need to do.

Calibre also rarely fails to send a book to the device when you decide to. If it can't, you will see an error. But, most errors are for the few database updates that the Kobo driver does. These happen after the book has been put on the device.
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and for some reason updating metadata wasn't working.
To update metadata on the device you needed to remove the books and send them again. Other than the series info, nothing is changed from the drive.
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I simply removed all of my side-loaded epubs from the device and told Calibre to send everything over, the KoboTouchExtended plugin kicked in so now I have a library of kobo epubs on my device with nice full titles and a fair bit of information (I downloaded a lot of metadata so it updated very nicely).
So you got your metadata when you did what I said above and removed and resent the books. Plus the decision to read kepubs
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I'm faced with a bit of a problem when it comes to updating the covers and getting them to look the same, the problem is detailed here - https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...90#post3188290
That's a "Why do they keep changing the cover" and "Who was the idiot that thought this look good" problem that can only be overcome by lots of searching. The suggestions in that thread should help.
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