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Originally Posted by luisdent
OK, here we go...
Yes, my font names are case sensitive and perfectly correct according to that instruction. And yes, I know you need to rename the books to .kepub.epub. I use calibre to convert the books and then open the containing folder and copy the files onto the device with the correct extensions. This has always worked. This is the only book that hasn't and still doesn't work manually coping to the device.
I used to send to the device via the kobo utility,
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No you didn't. The Kobo Utilities plugin has
absolutely nothing to do with sending books to the Kobo devices. You do not need it for that.
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but that function broke some time ago. I tried it tonight and yes, it does send books to the device. So I assume that was resolved in a recent update. I apologize for not testing that part further. I had recently had the issue and assumed nothing had changed in the short time between now and then. Apparently I was wrong.
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Yes, it is very wrong. Calibre will happily send a book to Kobo devices when the firmware version doesn't match. But, it cannot do other stuff, such as update metadata on the device.
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The database error however, was not the firmware issue, it was saying the database couldn't be found. It wasn't obvious, but I checked windows, and the path to the database file didn't exist. I created the directory in windows manually, and reconnected the kobo, and it appears to have solved the database error as all the functions work and no errors.
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And guess what is the first problem you should have started with? If calibre, or more specifically, the KoboTouch driver could not find the database, then you are in big trouble. And creating the directory to manually to fix it is absurd. It is more likely that the directory was hidden as it is normally marked as a system directory and the OSes tend not to show it. But, that wouldn't have helped as calibre will not create the database. It will only use an existing one.
Honestly, with the problems you are having, I am surprised the device was working at all. At the least I would have expected that it wasn't remembering your books when you added them or read them. And I am a bit surprised that it wasn't rebooting when you disconnected the device and taking you through the setup each time.
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FYI my version are as follows:
My reader is 4.26.16704 (0af09acc53, 2/10/21)
Calibre is 5.12.0
Kobo Utilities v2.12.3
I believe I found the issue with the fonts as well. Thank you Sirtel for the link
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kob...play_Correctly
It was not an issue of epub formatting, name of fonts, or any of that. Apparently, as per that article you can only have the 4 primary variants of a font (regular, italic, bold, bold italic). I have never seen that specifically written anywhere, so never thought to restrict a font to only those (how would I know a book wouldn't contain other weight variants :-P hehe). The Alegreya and multiple other fonts all had other variants. I simply deleted all the variants except the main four and loaded an epub and the font immediately looked correct.
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Every version of the instructions I have seen is pretty clear about what the files names are. The lack of any other file names should have told you what want going on.
And as you said, the rest is because of this mistake.