Just so folks can see OPs original post on the related topic without hunting it down
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Originally Posted by Gadgetguy
Hello all,
I have a brand new Kobo Forma.
I have transferred my book collection to it (539 books) - and for some reason the reader shows 541 books. (It showed 0 books originally)
When I check under "series", I see several unknown books:
The Folk of the Air from Holly Black
Me before you Trilogy from Jojo Moyes
Thriller from Andy Weir
L'amie prodigieuse from Elen Ferrante
Suspense / Thriller from Daniel Silva
I casi del Comissiario Adamsberg from Fred Vargas (this seems to be in Italian? I do not speak italian)
and one more in Chinese (I do not speak Chinese either)
(I have 6 Phantom books - so not sure how the 541 books come from with 539 loaded...)
When I search these books on the Kobo, they do not show up in the search results but they always show in the series view.
When I select any of these phantom books, the Kobo tells me
"You have no books yet" and gives a button for "Shop Kobo"...
What is going on? Where are these books from? How do I remove them?
Did I maybe get a refurb unit with some garbage left from the previous owner? It looked new - but who knows? The rubber area around the buttons did not look spotless, but I thought that is ok even when new? There was a screen protector on and the box was sealed - bought it directly from Kobo...
Thank you for your thoughts...
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Originally Posted by Gadgetguy
Hello all,
just got this morning my brand new Forma.
After some challenges (the Kobo website is down so I had to hack the registration) the Kobo is up and running.
I started to transfer my book collection using Calibre.
And here I have a challenge: when I transfer a large number of books - I alway get an error in Calibre "Error communicating with device" and the transfer fails.
I have already removed the Kobo utilities plug-in and I have plugged the Kobo directly into my laptop (so no USB hub) - but I still get this error.
Yes, I can transfer 10 books at a time - but with many hundreds of books that is a pain.
Is there a recommended way for transferring hundreds of books in one go?
Thank you for any suggestions!
(The communication itself works well between laptop and Kobo - I copied 2 GB of PDF to the unit with copy - paste with no problem)
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So not only were the books not being reported initially before the transfer but the device was hacked, there were issues of some odd nature communicating with the Forma from Calibre, and 2GB of books were copy pasted to the device.
So honestly I’m personally discounting the preloaded books. Too many oddities around that that are not the responsibility of Kobo.
Which narrows this down to fingerprints by the buttons, for any Forma owners you know this can happen but they’re so insanely easy to clean that unless the maker virtually oozed oils from their fingers I’d be surprised at a permanent marking. And even a refurbished unit will have been cleaned. Finally the USB port is “loose”. I can wiggle the cable when it’s plugged in to my Forma, same as I could on my Aura One and H2O, as well as virtually every micro USB device I’ve ever owned.