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Originally Posted by JLYates
I get back this message:
could not upload the following book(s) to device as no suitable formats were found. Convert the book(s) to a format supported by your device.
Huh? They have already been converted to ePub.
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You will get that message if any one of the books is not already converted. The rest would be transferred. If you push the More Details button, you will see a list of the books in question.
My guess is that one or more books in the selection had only .doc or .rtf (or some such) formats.
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Now what? Do I have to remove the books and start all over again? Why won't it let me redo them, or is there another way? Or did I miss a step?
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As I said above, my guess is that calibre sent the books it could. To find out, you should transfer [some of] them again, and if you get the message, check to see which books failed. Pick one of the failing books, check which formats it has, and post the list here if one of them is supported by Sony.
Another way to tell is to check if the author/title changed for one of the edited books, assuming you changed this information for some books.
A third way to check is to look at the dates on the books on the reader. If the date matches (approximately) the time of the second send, then the books were transferred. My 300's book information display shows only the date, which doesn't help if the changes were made on the same day. You can see the date and time by using a file explorer and going to the Sony's storage. No worries if that is too much trouble to do.
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I went to the selections at the top, where it has author, title and such and rearranged them to Author, Title, Series, Tags, Dates, MB, Published. I could care less about rating and some of the other areas, would like to see genre, but I can do that with tags.
Could have reorganizing the labels have created this problems?
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Are you saying that in the library view, you changed the order of the columns, and hid some? No, this will have no impact on what gets sent to the device.
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The books are still all on my Sony 900 reader, just many still without a cover or they have the authors face; such as Tale of Two Cities and many other classics.
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To recapitulate what I think you are saying:
1) You converted some books to epub.
2) You successfully sent these books to the reader.
3) You then decided to edit metadata, changing various things including the cover.
4) You resent the books and received the error discussed above.
5) The covers weren't changed.
I have already talked about the error. As for covers, there seems to be a disagreement between you and calibre over what should happen when you send a book to the device.
When you send a book to a reader, calibre will (if it can) update the metadata fields that have columns on the library view: author, title, series, tags, etc. It does not change the 'book' contents. The cover is considered book content.
As far as I can tell, the cover is changed only when the book is converted. I don't use these features, so cannot discuss with any authority how they work. That said, given that you are changing descriptions and the like, you might be interested in the 'jacket' feature that dwanthny discusses in the thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?p=984257.
In any event, to change the cover, you need to reconvert the book. Converting it from epub to epub will work. I hope that someone with more experience with this process will chime in, because it is likely that some tweaking of the conversion settings would be helpful.