Thread: Help - transfer from Kobo E-reader to Calibre?
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Old 02-28-2018, 08:43 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Josette88 View Post
My entire library is back, but I can't send new books to my kobo device. It is listed as on the reader in calibre, but if I close calibre and open it again, it is no longer listed as on the reader. When I open the reader, it is not on it.
If you send a book to the device, close calibre and reopen it without ejecting the device, the book will no longer be seen as on the device. This is a limitation in how the KoboTouch driver finds the books on the Kobo devices. The books must be imported into the internal database after the device is ejected.

When new books are added to the device and it is ejected, the device should import the book. When this happens a black screen is displayed with a progress bar as they are imported. With recent firmware, this happens a few seconds after the home screen is displayed. If this doesn't happen, then the device didn't detect any new books. This could be because you replaced existing books, or because they were put into locations that the device doesn't look (mainly a directory whose name starts with a dot). The latter shouldn't happen when you use calibre.

If the import does happen on the device but the books aren't seen, then it usually means there is a problem in a book and the device rejected it. Unfortunately, there are no errors displayed when this happens. And if a group of books are sent, then one failing can prevent the others from being imported.

If it is this, you need to find the bad book, remove it and fix it. It sounds like you are only adding a few books, so removing them and adding them one at a time should find the problem book. Fixing it is a little harder. I haven't been able to work out what causes these problems. I tend to do some cleaning of books before sending them to the device, so this probably prevents the problems. But, an epub to epub conversion will probably solve it. Or opening it in the calibre editor and running the error checking and fixing the problems will do it.
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Could this have anything to do with the fact that the others were copied from the device?
No, that isn't going to be the problem.
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