Thanks, DNSB. I just read the thread.
In my case, there are 51 (not 52) such preview books.
Am I correct to understand that these are probably some "placeholder" books that were probably used to test the Kobo software during its early development and were simply left there over the years? During the normal course of the device setup (by signing onto a Kobo account), these books get cleared out so it is not an issue.
With sideloading, online activation gets bypassed so these "placeholder" books do not get cleared out as they ought to be. These books are not true previews but are actually phantom entries. As described in the other thread, tapping on a book under the Authors tab will prompt a message that there is actually no book attached to the book's author.
Am I correct that I am basically stuck as the only way to rid of these phantom entries is to delete them via editing the database as suggested by previous posters?
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Originally Posted by DNSB
You might want to check the Deleting preloaded books from Kobo thread starting from around message #46. You could start at message #30 where the thread was revived after 11 years but #46 is the one I would suggest starting with. |