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franklekens · 03-25-2017, 10:24 AM

Okay, so I bought a new book and wanted to download it by syncing and had to upgrade to the new 4.3.8945 firmware. So fine. I suddenly have the moronic new home screen now, but I'm not even going to complain about that.

I bought the book from a Dutch shop, bol.com, the account of which you can link to the Kobo account so the book is supposed to download automatically via syncing.

Okay, so this doesn't exactly seem to work. Still not complaining. I downloaded the epub from Bol.com, added it to Calibre, which thankfully still seems to have some drm-removal plugins installed, and I sideloaded it via Calibre.

Fine, I thought.
So I go to that idiotic home screen, and I see the cover of the recently downloaded book there in the big "my books" tile. I tap on that and I get my list of books: it's not there.
I go to the search and tap the author's name: nothing.
I sort the list of all my books alphabetically and scroll and scroll and scroll till I'm there: it's not there!

How is that possible? The cover is visible in the "my books" tile, and that's *all* I ever get to see of this book.

How? Why? What's happening?

Please don't tell me I have to patch anything. (And have to go through that process every bloody time Kobo decides to come out with a FW update.) I only want to read a book!!
It's getting so I'm considering switching back to paper copies only.

03-25-2017, 10:24 AM	#1
franklekens Addict Posts: 398 Karma: 3421956 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: various Kobo's, Onyx Note2, Pocketbook 360, Kindle Keyboard	book unfindable on ereader Okay, so I bought a new book and wanted to download it by syncing and had to upgrade to the new 4.3.8945 firmware. So fine. I suddenly have the moronic new home screen now, but I'm not even going to complain about that. I bought the book from a Dutch shop, bol.com, the account of which you can link to the Kobo account so the book is supposed to download automatically via syncing. Okay, so this doesn't exactly seem to work. Still not complaining. I downloaded the epub from Bol.com, added it to Calibre, which thankfully still seems to have some drm-removal plugins installed, and I sideloaded it via Calibre. Fine, I thought. So I go to that idiotic home screen, and I see the cover of the recently downloaded book there in the big "my books" tile. I tap on that and I get my list of books: it's not there. I go to the search and tap the author's name: nothing. I sort the list of all my books alphabetically and scroll and scroll and scroll till I'm there: it's not there! How is that possible? The cover is visible in the "my books" tile, and that's all I ever get to see of this book. How? Why? What's happening? Please don't tell me I have to patch anything. (And have to go through that process every bloody time Kobo decides to come out with a FW update.) I only want to read a book!! It's getting so I'm considering switching back to paper copies only.