Thread: [Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver
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Old 07-28-2019, 09:02 PM   #1901
davidfor
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Originally Posted by lumpynose View Post
Question 1: What do I lose by unchecking "Enable Extended Kobo Features"?

All of the books on my Kobo are either from Amazon and converted in Calibre or are epubs downloaded from Project Gutenberg and its ilk. There is a problem that either davidfor or DNSB explained to me that I was experiencing where if a book doesn't have a cover then the margins are wacko, due to the spans added by the driver. So I reverted back to the vanilla Kobo driver.

I decided to try re-enabling the extended driver and unticking the Enable Extended Kobo Features and that solves the problem. I was wondering if I lose any other features besides the spans, which I don't think I utilize in any event.
As @jgoguen said, the spans are sort of the reason for the plugin. You don't use them, the firmware does.

A simple solution to the cover problem is to do a Polish Books or use the Modify ePub plugin to add the cover. Or run a full conversion (which I don't think is that bad an idea for most PG sourced books). They can all add the cover you have downloaded to the book. Or any that calibre has generated.
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Question 2: What's an easy way to delete the many books I'd previously uploaded with the extended driver that are in kepub format?

I'm on Windows so I could do "dir *.kepub.epub /s/b" to generate a list and then edit it and add a del to the beginning of each line. Can I simply do that? And if so should I do anything after that to clean up or mend any metadata or whatnot on the device?

And is that extension .kepub.epub correct? I was expecting them to have the extension .kepub.
That would work and doesn't need anything else done. When you disconnect the device, the firmware will see that books are missing and do the cleanup in the database and of any covers.

But, the way I do this is from the library in calibre. I'm usually deleting a second copy on the device because I have ended up with both epub and kepub versions. What I do is select the books I want to remove and press the "Delete books" icon. If the device is connected, you get prompted with where to delete them from. Select device. Then I go through the list uncheck the versions I want to keep. It isn't very practical when doing a lot of books, but, I am usually only removing a few because I had the wrong driver active when sending some books.
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