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Old 03-26-2016, 08:50 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Alpha o View Post
Found most of it, some still are not right, will have to fix individually. Why can't they use the Dewey Decimal System?
If you want to use the Dewey Decimal System, I think the Library Code plugin will help.
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I have copies of Astronomy Magazine, old astronomy books, cookbooks, patterns and even some apks for android sitting on the card. Sometimes Kobo will show something it can't open, and you have to hunt it down.
The Kobo software should only list in the library files with an extension it understands. It will also attempt to extract the metadata from the file. If it can't, it uses the file name or "unknown".

If the device can't open it after this, then it is probably an error in the file. Or it has DRM.
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Why won't it put books on the card, then? It says I'm almost out of onboard memory, but I've been putting books on the external card. It looks like Kobo is transferring preferred books to the internal storage for some reason. It will show things in triplicate and if I check the card on Android or Windows, it only shows one copy in the internal memory, and 1 copy on the card. I put the book on the card.
The only way books can get to the internal memory is if you send them there, or they are downloaded there during a sync or via the Kobo desktop. The device does not copy books from the SD card to the internal memory. But, when using the device, there is no way to tell whether the book is on SD card or in the main memory. The details for books from both places are added to the internal database and that is what is used for the library lists.

So, exactly how are you sending the books to the card? And how are you seeing that they end up in the main memory? Does calibre show the SD card when you connect? Can you write to the card from outside calibre?
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