Hi.. I just bought a Kobo Sage and having a hell of a time trying to get it to work with Calibre.
what is happening
Basically it sees the device and has the "send to device button"... I can click it and it will "send", show the tick and eveything... but when I unplug the Sage from my computer there are no new books visible on the device. If I then plug the device back into the computer and open Calibre again, none of the books i just sent have the "green, on device" tick anymore. If I browse to the root of the dir accessible via windows explore, all the books I uploaded are there in the root.
What I have tried
I found this guide
Calibre setup for Kobo ebook reader posted 12 July 2025 on a blog called "
juliusunscripted".
It told me to install a plugin called "
Kobo Utilities". I did this and then followed the other instructions in the post. The only thing I did different is that in Kobo Utilities I made a profile for the device, and added the "new columns" by clicking create columns and then using the default values.
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The only settings I didn't change was in the OTHER tab, as I didn't know what they were or how to use them.
After following that Blog
The blog just runs me through some steps and then says to click the "send to device button". After it is sent I can click on "device" and see the books. I try to be super careful, so I exit Calibre, then in explore right click on the kobo and select "eject" before unplugging it.
BUT...... When I plug it back in
- When I plug it back in the books show as "not" on the device (no green ticks)
- They are not on the device, if I click on the device button, no books are listed at all.
- They are physically in the root of the drive, inside the author name subsDir. By root I mean in explore I click on the drive "KOBOeReader".
TL;DR
Q: I can not get Calibre to send files to my new Kobo Sage. How can I get this to work?