Thread: KSM 08, kobo database, and Calibre
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Old 01-29-2017, 11:36 PM   #4
davidfor
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Originally Posted by tshering View Post
I cannot really answer your questions, since I do not use Calibre to load books on my devices. As to your last question: Usually the database gets updated when you disconnect the device AND nickel is running. That would mean that one should connect from within nickel to the pc, if one wants to load books that nickel should deal with. If you are using the Kobo Utilities Plugin, it might be different, since it writes to the database. But I do not know whether it does the whole job on its own, or if it still needs nickel to be running.
As PeterT said, the Kobo Utilities plugin only writes to the database if the book is already there. Same goes for the drivers (with the exception of shelves). I've looked at creating the book records in the database and put it in to the "not worth the effort" basket. The driver assumes the books are processed by nickel and put into the database. It doesn't look anywhere except in the database for books. If they are not in the database, they are effectively not on the device.
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