Thread: [KOBO] books on the device that are not recognised by calibre
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Old 06-22-2019, 09:50 AM   #2
davidfor
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Originally Posted by anacreon View Post
I have a brand new Forma since Thursday, in exchange for the one I bought October last which had battery problems, and I've been suffering through loading some 4300 books (epubs converted to kepubs on the go).

There was the usual rigmarole of having to split the books in small parcels, and after a few parcels Calibre closes down, with no way to see what went wrong since when I reopen it, it is in the state it was in when closed down properly.
What? I've never had calibre "close down" when transferring any number of books to my Kobo devices. I don't usually do it in big batches, but, I have done more than a 1000 in the not to distant past. Were there any error messages from calibre?

If something does go wrong, if you just restart calibre, it won't see the books that were transferred to the device in the previous session. You need to disconnect the device and let it import the books. Then calibre will see the books when you next connect.
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Now that I have finished transferring, some 100 books are on the device, but are not recognized by Calibre. I can read them, but the metadata are not updated in the details of the book, though they are in the proper collections. And I can't synchronise the reading positions (I have 3 devices active).

I have tried several times cancelling those books from the device and loading them again, with the same results.
Are you saying that none of the books on the device are matched to the calibre library? Or just some of them? If the latter, the most common reason I have found for the automatic matching to fails is if the book has multiple authors. You will probably need to do a manual match for these. There are other reasons, but this is the most common.

If you mean all the books, I think I'd need to see a debug log from calibre to try and guess what is going on.
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