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Originally Posted by beachboybogart
No it's not, actually. The whole Windows issue revolves around the fact that the OS may or may not give an audible connection signal, the device may or may not show up in File Manager, but invariably does not appear in Caliber, or, when it does, the contents of the Kobo do not display in the program, and books cannot be copied to the Kobo. So this causes users to not be clear on whether or not it is actually connected, whether the USB connection is recognized but not completed, whether the cable itself is bad (rarely, but that's where a lot of users are looking), whether the OS is out of date on the Kobo, whether a newer or older version of Calibre is the problem... you get the gist.
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Been there, done that for a lot of years. So far I have never had an issue with calibre seeing a Kobo ereader that was mounted as a drive. It may have complained about database corruption or other issues but that's a different story from not being able to see the device.
OTOH, I will admit to having seen a lot of posters who complained that calibre would not see their ereader but when questioned, also admitted it was not mounted in File Explorer, MacOS desktop, File Manager (ahhh... OS/2 and Windows up to 1998(?)). Android MTP devices which mount, by default, in charge only mode are one of the more popular examples.