Thread: Books not showing as on "Device"
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Old 10-19-2018, 06:36 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by tratatata View Post
I may have the same problem. The issue for me is that the calibre doesn't list all the books on the "Device" window, so I can't manually match the books, and some books are only on my kobo, but not in my calibre database, but this should not matter (or maybe it does?), calibre still should see all the books on kobo.
The KoboTouch driver only looks at the database when looking for books. It does check that the books found in the database are on the device, but it doesn't scan for other. This is a deliberate design choice as any books not in the database are unusable by the device until they are imported.
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And just deleting books from kobo and reuploading won't work, because all new uploaded books won't appear on "Device" window when you reconnect kobo.
The real question here is were the books imported into the library on the device? If they weren't, then there is a problem. It usually means there is an error in the book that broke the import. And when that happens any books still not imported will be skipped.

If the books are in the library on the device, and not in the device list. It usually means there was an error during the connection. And that needs to be investigated.
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This problem occurs to me a second time. Both times after I used fresh calibre installation with a new database (the books were uploaded with my previous calibre installation), I did not bother with backups as I don't have that many books or a proper database, I just add a book to calibre and upload to my kobo as I need. I could not figure it out the first time so I just reset my kobo and that fixed the problem, but this is not ideal solution.
You can automate the database backup with my Kobo Utilities plugin. If the database becomes corrupted, you can restore it and avoid needing to do any sort of reset.
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