Thread: Books not showing as on "Device"
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Old 10-18-2018, 08:19 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
I've been using Calibre ever since I got my Sony and I know how it works... But not what to do when it doesn't work anymore. I didn't change anything in Calibre,
But, it is a good idea to check the configuration, just in case.
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it finds about 40 or 50 books on my reader, even after I delete that metadata file. And there's no rhyme or reason to it. For example, one book of a series can be found, the rest not, while the rest has exactly the same format in filename as the first...
The file name doesn't matter. The matching is between the metadata in the database on the device and the metadata in the library. The filename can be used as a fallback if the book on the device doesn't have metadata, but that isn't going to happen with the KoboTouch driver.
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Looks like I'll have to rematch all my books, or upload them all again (probably do a combination, so I can hopefullly get the Kobo metadata, like reading position and date last read again in my Calibre DB...)
I don't know what is happening. If the books are shown in the library on the device, then calibre should display them in the device list. And it should then match them. As a test, I removed the metadata.calibre from one of my devices. This has 599 books on it. Most were downloaded directly from Kobo. Calibre was able 490 of them. The ones that didn't match were the ones I didn't expect. These are books where the title Kobo has is different to what most of the metadata sources have. Or where they include the series name as part of the title.

That should happen unless there is an error happening along the way.
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