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Originally Posted by zardoxnet
What configuration or preference in calibre can prevent attempts to connect when plugging in the usb cable from my Kobo ereader. I do not want to connect ever. I have way too many books to put on the ereader and I want only to open the Kobo as an external drive and manually add or delete files. However, if I have Calibre open it does this confusing dance moving icons on the menu around and attempting to connect. I do not want Calibre to take any action. How can I just turn it off? I a message is displayed "Error communicating with device" WTF I do not want it to communicate AT ALL?!
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When I read the opening post my reaction was 'Ah-hah, a fellow minimalist'. I regarded everything following "However, ..." as the OP having a bit of a rant. And the initial reply Sirtel provided was what I thought was the correct response, and in essence I still think that.
Within a couple of days of installing calibre in 2012, I decided the device connect feature was too bothersome for me, so I disabled the drivers for Android & Kindle. I thought I did that via Prefs->Ignore devices, but I see now I must have done it via Prefs->Plugins, but it shows up in Prefs-Ignore devices.
I only keep what I'm currently reading on my devices - Android phone, Surface GO, and an old Kindle. Because I mainly read histories and biographies, they can take me weeks to read, so its no hardship to add and delete an occasional file manually. I often extract back matter into a separate file so that I can read the body on the GO and use the phone to refer to footnotes, references etc.
BR