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Wimi_Bussard · 05-04-2017, 10:42 AM

The Tolino Vision 4HD isn't very flexible when it comes to organizing your books with calibre. In fact, you cannot access its collections at all with calibre. Instead, the reader creates the collection based on the folder structure on the reader. Collections are a bunch of books that you have put in certain groups, e.g. genre-groups (fantasy, sci-fi etc.) or series-group (Harry Potter series). So, basically, calibre creates folders (which contain books) on the reader, you disconnect the cable and the reader starts to import the folder structure and creates the collections based on the read folder structure.

Inconveniently as it is, this works fine and all, but it seems that Calibre doesn't copy umlauts and special chars to the reader when creating the folders, like "?", "!" and other characters. An "ä" turns to "a", a "ö" turns to "o" etc. Special characters like exclamation marks will turn into underscores "_". Hence, the reader will create collections without these umlauts and I have to rename it manually on the reader, which is kinda annoying.

Is this a bug of the Tolino plugin? If so, can I fix this somehow?

Thanks!

05-04-2017, 10:42 AM	#1
Wimi_Bussard Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2013 Device: tolino vision 4 HD	Calibre doesn't copy umlauts for collection on Tolino Vision 4HD The Tolino Vision 4HD isn't very flexible when it comes to organizing your books with calibre. In fact, you cannot access its collections at all with calibre. Instead, the reader creates the collection based on the folder structure on the reader. Collections are a bunch of books that you have put in certain groups, e.g. genre-groups (fantasy, sci-fi etc.) or series-group (Harry Potter series). So, basically, calibre creates folders (which contain books) on the reader, you disconnect the cable and the reader starts to import the folder structure and creates the collections based on the read folder structure. Inconveniently as it is, this works fine and all, but it seems that Calibre doesn't copy umlauts and special chars to the reader when creating the folders, like "?", "!" and other characters. An "ä" turns to "a", a "ö" turns to "o" etc. Special characters like exclamation marks will turn into underscores "_". Hence, the reader will create collections without these umlauts and I have to rename it manually on the reader, which is kinda annoying. Is this a bug of the Tolino plugin? If so, can I fix this somehow? Thanks!