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Originally Posted by Regard_39
Yes that's also why I was hoping to somehow force kepubify to cooperate with Calibre. Actually I would like to convince my wife to leave her kindle for a kobo (yes I know, some people might joke about leaving her kobo or her husband  ). |
All you should need to do is show her how much happier you are with the Kobo than she is with her Kindle. My wife does love her Kobo, but, if I am honest, she wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I chose Kobo in 2011 and she followed a bit later. But, she couldn't change to a Kindle now, because she wants the bigger screen. She went Touch, Glo, Aura ONE, Forma and now Sage. There is no way she would go to a smaller screen.
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By the way, I wonder if there is a specific way to use Calibre when you only own a Kobo. I'm not sure if it's very different from other e-readers but if so (enough peculiarities, of course I'm thinking of the kepub format, but maybe other features ...) it would almost deserve a dedicated forum section [/newbie suggestion mode]
Ultimate clarification: it is indeed the updated kobotouch extended plugin that I use.
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Occasionally, someone asks what they need to do to setup calibre for a Kobo device. They get lots of responses about what plugins to install. My response it that they don't need anything extra. Everything you
need is built-in. Everything else is extra function and/or a complication. And that is coming from the person who either wrote the plugins people are suggesting, or has done a lot of work in maintaining them.
About the only thing I think you should do is to create a metadata plugboard for the author. The reason for this is that the way that calibre sets the authors for books with multiple authors when sending the books is not the way that Kobo wants them. Calibre sets them as separate entries in the OPF but Kobo wants a single entry as "FN1 LN1, FN2 LN2". Neither is wrong, but calibre is more right.
The next thing is collection management. If you want to use collections, you can do this through the driver. It is a matter of choosing which columns to use to specify the collections.
After that it is more complicated. If you prefer kepubs to epubs, then the KoboTouchExtended driver is usually the way to go. But, if you only want kepubs for books were there is a real advantage in the format (footnotes show as a popup, image zoom), then you can convert to kepub which means you need the Kepub Output plugin. And you should then install the Kepub Metadata reader and writer plugins. The latter allow calibre to update the metadata in the kepubs that are in the library or get the metadata from them.
Then there is my Kobo Utilities plugin. That has lots of function to do various things. Some are set and forget (backup the database and other important files when the device is connected). Or the reading status fetch. That gets the reading status of the books on the device and stores it in the library. It can be restored to the device if needed. There are other things for cover management, database checking, updating books, updating metadata etc. All functions that are handy, but, just as likely to be unneeded for a lot of people.
If you want these things, you can get them. Or make suggestions about other things that could be done. But, some people just want to read, and keeping it simple is the way to go for them.