Thread: Subset of books that were sent to device are not recognized as "on device"
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Old 12-22-2020, 08:31 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by mst View Post
In case anybody has the same issue, my workaround is exiting KOReader before connecting on USB and putting new books on it and letting Nickel update the database on disconnect.
If you are not going to use nickel, then my recommendation is to not use the KoboTouch or the KoboTouchExtended drivers. There is no function the drivers supplies that benefits you when not using nickel. Plus, they reads the database to see what is on the device. As you have discovered, if you don't go into nickel after sending books to the device calibre will not see them.

Instead you can use either the Folder Device Interface or the User Defined USB driver. Both will supply the basic function for sending books to the device and seeing that they are connected later. They will also build the metadata.calibre file the KOReader uses.

The Folder Device Interface treats a folder as a device. In this case use a folder on the connected device. Using the root directory should work.

The User Defined USB driver can use any connected USBMSD device. For the Clara HD, You need to configure this driver with:

USB Vendor ID: 0x2237
USB Product ID: 0x4232
USB Revision ID: 0x401

For both, you will also need to disable to the KoboTouch or the KoboTouchExtended drivers.
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