Thread: Long book titles and issues with kobo and Calibre
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Old 09-20-2013, 09:18 PM   #3
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When sending a book to the Kobo devices, the driver limits the full path to 185 characters. The names of the cover image files are generated using the path for the book. The book file name has to be limited in length to prevent problems with this. Hence, calibre mangles the file name to fit this.
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