Help with Calibre please

[isis]

Hi
I am not very good with computers but I have used Calibre for about 6 months and love it. I have a Sony ereader.

The problem I have now is that my grandson has an Elonex book reader and I can't use Calibre with it.

My daughter has a kindle and I would love to use Calibre with it.

Is it possible to use different readers on one computer?

How do I make Calibre "see" the Elonex reader?

Many thanks, Isis xxx )

[user_none]

You can use calibre with multiple devices but they cannot be connected at the same time.

The Elonex EB 511 is supported. If his device is a different model a little bit of work is necessary to get it to work. In this case go into Preferences, Miscellaneous. There is a button that says debug device detection. First click it without the Elonex or any other reader connected. Copy the output someplace. Plugin the Elonex. Wait 1 - 2 minutes. Press the debug device detection button again. Copy the output someplace. Post the output of both times here.

[isis]

Hi there User None,
Ha he has the EB 511, luckily.
Thank you for all your help.
Can I just be a tad cheeky and ask you one more question please?

I know I can put books on a Kindle using Calibre, but does that mean I can no longer buy books too? What I am meaning is can I download free books and still buy from Amazon, I have been told that I won't be able to do this.

Thanks again, Isis )

[user_none]

Originally Posted by isis

I know I can put books on a Kindle using Calibre, but does that mean I can no longer buy books too? What I am meaning is can I download free books and still buy from Amazon, I have been told that I won't be able to do this.

You can get books from a number of different places. Calibre even has a built in search (Get books feature in the toolbar) that helps you find books. You can get all the free books you and and still buy from Amazon.

Where you might run into a problem is with DRM. You can't read a book you've bought from Amazon (in most cases) on the EB 511 for instance due to DRM. Calibre can convert between many different ebook formats and will do this automatically when you send an ebook to a device. However, it cannot convert DRM protected files.

[isis]

Hi User None,

Thank you so much for all the information.

Everything is a lot clearer now xxx )

[speakingtohe]

My mother has a kindle and I have put calibre converted books on it and bought books from Amazon and put them on it.

I even managed to email a calibre converted book (not purchased from Amazon) to her kindle with no charge and no problems. I used the calibre email function.

Your daughter should also look into the calibre collection manager plugin as it is very handy

Helen

[isis]

Hi
I cannot get Calibre to see that the Elonex is plugged in!!

Can anyone help please?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by isis

Hi
I cannot get Calibre to see that the Elonex is plugged in!!

Can anyone help please?

See Sticky #2 in Devices.

[isis]

USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid10de&pid077d&rev00a1',
u'usb\\root_hubVersion: 0.8.6
&vid10de&pid077b&rev00a1',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid10de&pid077e&rev00a1',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid10de&pid077c&rev00a1',
u'usb\\vid_045e&pid_ffff&rev_0000',
u'usb\\vid_04f2&pid_b091&rev_1324',
u'usb\\vid_04f2&pid_b091&rev_1324&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_0930&pid_0b09&rev_0112',
u'usb\\vid_0bda&pid_0158&rev_5887',
u'usb\\vid_14cd&pid_8123&rev_0201']
Drives detected:
(0) H:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_&PROD_&REV_#000000000000&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
(0) G:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_GENERIC-&PROD_MULTI-CARD&REV_1.00#20071114173400000&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
(0) J:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_USB_2.0&PROD_SD_MMC_READER&REV__#812320080329&0 #{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52 E71X
EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA ITUNES JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KOBO LIBREAIR LUMIREAD MENTOR
MIBUK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ORIZON
PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360
POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602 POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 README S60 SHINEBOOK
SNE SOVOS SPECTRA STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK
TREKSTOR USER_DEFINED VELOCITYMICRO WEXLER

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_045e&pid_ffff&rev_0000'
No match found in: \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_&PROD_&REV_#000000000000&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
No match found in: \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_GENERIC-&PROD_MULTI-CARD&REV_1.00#20071114173400000&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
No match found in: \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_USB_2.0&PROD_SD_MMC_READER&REV__#812320080329&0 #{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}

Devices possibly connected: None

[isis]

Is this right?
I totally dont know what Im doing lol sorry!!

[kovidgoyal]

Your device is not reporting its vendor and product names to windows
        as can be seen looking at the debug output. Look at the lines

            ...VEN_&PROD_&...

        A properly working device would report something like:

            ...VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS-650&

        Without this it is not possible for calibre to support your device.

        You can use the Connect to folder function to connect to your device
        instead. Click the Connect/Share button in calibre to access this
        function.

[isis]

This was done when the elonex reader was plugged in.

I dont know what to do, i think its best to leave it, I jsut wanted to be able to change the format of some books on the Elonex

Thanks for your help )

[isis]

This is what I got with the Sony reader plugged in..... it is different

Version: 0.8.6
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid10de&pid077d&rev00a1',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid10de&pid077b&rev00a1',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid10de&pid077e&rev00a1',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid10de&pid077c&rev00a1',
u'usb\\vid_04f2&pid_b091&rev_1324',
u'usb\\vid_04f2&pid_b091&rev_1324&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_054c&pid_031e&rev_031:',
u'usb\\vid_0930&pid_0b09&rev_0112',
u'usb\\vid_0bda&pid_0158&rev_5887']
Drives detected:
(0) H:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_SONY&PROD_PRS-650&REV_1.00#0800461001570629&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
(0) G:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_GENERIC-&PROD_MULTI-CARD&REV_1.00#20071114173400000&0#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
(2) J:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_SONY&PROD_PRS-650_SD&REV_1.00#0800461001570629&2#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
(3) K:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#1&19F7E59C&0&_??_USBSTOR#DISK&V EN_SONY&PROD_PRS-650_LAUNCHER&REV_1.00#0800461001570629&3#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52 E71X
EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA ITUNES JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KOBO LIBREAIR LUMIREAD MENTOR
MIBUK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ORIZON
PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360
POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602 POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 README S60 SHINEBOOK
SNE SOVOS SPECTRA STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK
TREKSTOR USER_DEFINED VELOCITYMICRO WEXLER

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_054c&pid_031e&rev_031:'
Detected possible device PRS505

Devices possibly connected: SONY Device Interface,
Trying to open SONY Device Interface ... OK
Main memory: 'H:\\'
Total space: (1605230592, 0, 8032092160L

[theducks]

Originally Posted by isis

This was done when the elonex reader was plugged in.

I dont know what to do, i think its best to leave it, I jsut wanted to be able to change the format of some books on the Elonex

Thanks for your help )

That is SET in the Firmware/Hardware.
All you can do is contact the Vendor and ask them correct their faulty implementation of the USB interface.

Save to Disk (or connect to folder: where the folder is on the drive on the device) will work for you.

[isis]

Thanks Ducks,

I understand more now xxx )