Thread: Kobo and Calibre
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Old 05-13-2016, 06:33 AM   #3
davidfor
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Originally Posted by pipcat View Post
- I installed Calibre from Ubuntu repository but my Glo Hd was not well recognized and I must use “Folder Device Interface” to transfer ebooks. Also, Kobo Utilities plugin from davidfor doesn't works because Kobo is not detected.
The problem was related to the Calibre version in Ubuntu repository, that is quite old (v1.25). Download it from Calibre website, currently on version 2.56. https://calibre-ebook.com/download
With v2.56 Glo Hd is detected ok and Kobo Utilities are enabled ;-)
Yes, the general advice is to ignore the calibre version in the repository and install from the calibre site.
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- Another problem I found is related to books with many authors, that causes too long paths and filenames, so books are not well syncronized between pc and e-reader. I suppose there are better workarounds or custom functions, but limiting the size was ok for me. I use this template to transfer files, so all my e-books on Kobo are under folder calibre, authors path limited to 50 chars and title to 100.
calibre/{author_sort:.50}/{title:.100}
What's the problem? The KoboTouch driver shouldn't generate a path longer 185 characters long. That takes into account everything in the plus the length needed for the images. If the problem is the that the books with multiple authors don't match with the calibre library when you next connect, that's a problem with how the authors are stored in the book and the database.
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- When transfering books to e-reader, they are stored as Kepub althought I had epub above kepub in preference order. To respect this order, we must uncheck “Enable Kobo Extended Features” from device config.
As jackie_w said, that's because you installed the KoboTouchExtended driver. If you don't want kepubs, remove the driver.
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- To syncronize Shelves from Kobo, we could create a custom column in calibre (#koboshelf) and fill it in device config.
The shelf columns in the driver is a comma separated list. You can put as many columns as you want into the list. There is a wiki page to describing what you can do.
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