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catkin · 11-25-2025, 07:38 AM

I found the plugin and developed a solution with Kovid Goyal's help as detailed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2131923

Here's from that (invalid) bug report:

I found a solution. Got the current source tarball from https://calibre-ebook.com/dist/src (ref https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/dev...tting-the-code). Searched the unpacked tarball for 'PocketBook Touch Lux 2'. Found in src/calibre/devices/misc.py. Modified it as shown in this diff:

Code:

523,524c523,524
< name = 'PocketBook Touch Lux 2'
< gui_name = 'PocketBook Touch Lux 2'
---
>     name  = 'PocketBook Era'
>     gui_name = 'PocketBook Era'
535c535
< SCAN_FROM_ROOT = True
---
>     SCAN_FROM_ROOT = False

Set envar CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM (ref https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/dev...nt-environment) and ran calibre. When the PocketBook Era was plugged in it was reported as a PocketBook Era (cosmetic) and the Device tab displayed only books in the Books directory (as wanted).

When the PocketBook Era was first connected by USB it had USB vendor ID 18d1 and product ID 0001. The https://the-sz.com/products/usbid/in...8D1&p=0x0001&n shows those indicate a Google "Onda V972 (storage access)". When the PocketBook Era screen's PC LINK was pressed those changed to USB vendor ID fffe and product ID 0001.

Vendor ID fffe is probably not official (= assigned by https://www.usb.org) because it does not appear in http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids, appears in https://usb-ids.gowdy.us/read/UD?restrict=f without assignment and is "Nothing found" at https://the-sz.com/products/usbid/in...FFFE&p=0001&n=

11-25-2025, 07:38 AM	#2
catkin Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2019 Location: England, UK Device: Kobo H2O and Pocketbook Era Stardust	I found the plugin and developed a solution with Kovid Goyal's help as detailed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2131923 Here's from that (invalid) bug report: I found a solution. Got the current source tarball from https://calibre-ebook.com/dist/src (ref https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/dev...tting-the-code). Searched the unpacked tarball for 'PocketBook Touch Lux 2'. Found in src/calibre/devices/misc.py. Modified it as shown in this diff: Code: 523,524c523,524 < name = 'PocketBook Touch Lux 2' < gui_name = 'PocketBook Touch Lux 2' --- > name = 'PocketBook Era' > gui_name = 'PocketBook Era' 535c535 < SCAN_FROM_ROOT = True --- > SCAN_FROM_ROOT = False Set envar CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM (ref https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/dev...nt-environment) and ran calibre. When the PocketBook Era was plugged in it was reported as a PocketBook Era (cosmetic) and the Device tab displayed only books in the Books directory (as wanted). When the PocketBook Era was first connected by USB it had USB vendor ID 18d1 and product ID 0001. The https://the-sz.com/products/usbid/in...8D1&p=0x0001&n shows those indicate a Google "Onda V972 (storage access)". When the PocketBook Era screen's PC LINK was pressed those changed to USB vendor ID fffe and product ID 0001. Vendor ID fffe is probably not official (= assigned by https://www.usb.org) because it does not appear in http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids, appears in https://usb-ids.gowdy.us/read/UD?restrict=f without assignment and is "Nothing found" at https://the-sz.com/products/usbid/in...FFFE&p=0001&n= Last edited by catkin; 11-25-2025 at 12:58 PM.