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Originally Posted by compurandom
These left over books were books that the device didn't fully process, and thus didn't put them in the database. This is why calibre didn't recognize them.
Most likely, these were corrupted books. It would have been interesting to make a list of those, and then see if they are in calibre, and if so, check if the file on the device is the same as what is in calibre.
There's a number of possibilities I can think of: - These books are also corrupt in calibre, in which case your problems will reoccur as soon as you transfer them
- These books were corrupted during transfer but somehow didn't get noticed
- These books were added to the device by some method other than calibre
- These books were corrupted after being transferred, possibly by bit rot on the sd card or something, and the database was reset, forcing them to be re-imported
- Somehow, the book was sent to the device from calibre more than once, but only one copy is corrupted.
If this happens again, it might be useful to check and see if there are books you sent to the device from calibre, but calibre doesn't show as being on the device, indicating it didn't scan correctly when importing books. Then, you'd have to hunt down where the corrupt file is on the device and manually delete it. |
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I think I've narrowed it down to two books that might have caused the problem. Though alot more were left half-processed (despite them working previous of adding the books that messes it all up).
In the process of re-adding books I only added a few at a time. The last time I only added two books and the problem came back. Only one book were actually added to the device though (visible in explorer). The second book did not get added at all. The half processed books above were probably a result of this same issue, it only added the first book but not the second.
I removed the book manually from explorer, hoping that would sort it out. But alas, it was not. I then tried to replace the database with the one that was working after i fixed it last time. But it still would not work!
All books were added with calibre, none of them are corrupt in calibre though. They have also been checked for errors. I am pretty sure the books that messed it up this time was among the last ones i added to the device before last time this happened.
I was hoping that I wouldnt have to re-do everything from scratch once again now that I've narrowed it down. But it seems that this cursed book is really messing things up, beyond just the database.
I've also noticed another very strange thing. Once this problem occurs, some of the covers of the books on the device gets the colors of their covers inverted (in calibre at least).