nook simple touch and book formats

tittle65 · 12-23-2011, 07:18 PM

My understanding is that calibre automatically converts books to a compatible format when sending books to a device?

I've got a (unrooted, but I am not opposed to rooting it) Nook Simple Touch that I've been playing around, and so far PDF and EPUB work fine on it when I send those formats to the device. I sent some MOBI files over, and those did not convert, but the Nook seems not to recognize the books (the books do not show up at all in looking through the Library on the reader itself, though when I connect it to my computer (running Ubuntu 11.04) the MOBI books are visible in nautilus.

Am I missing something? Or do I need to tell it what to do? I looked through preferences & device, but didn't see anything obvious... (I also searched thru this forum on nook & mobi but did not find any previous thread that was applicable to this question.)

Thanks!

irishtexmex · 12-23-2011, 10:49 PM

You could just manually convert (in bulk, obviously) beforehand and then sync the epubs over to the Nook.

tittle65 · 12-24-2011, 12:19 AM

Yeah, I wound up doing that, but I would really rather not fill up my disk space with extra copies of converted books, and then it seems when I migrate the book to the nook, it's picking up all versions of it, so then I have to go back into the nook and delete the unreadable formats. This seems like more flailing about than I thought it would be. Is there a way to only port one format of a book over? When I click on a book, it acts singularly in the Calibre panel, I just have the bit on the right that lists all the formats it is available in. I don't seem to have a way of picking one or the other before I hit the device button.

Thanks for your reply!

itimpi · 12-24-2011, 01:57 AM

When you send a book to a device, Calibre will only send one format. It will pick the one that is highest up the list of those ticked as supported in the driver for that device, If no compatible format exists it will first run a conversion to the highest listed format marked as supported.

The only way you should be ale to get extra formats on the device would be if you did the transfer using something other than the Calibre Send to Device feature.

12-23-2011, 07:18 PM	#1
tittle65 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	nook simple touch and book formats My understanding is that calibre automatically converts books to a compatible format when sending books to a device? I've got a (unrooted, but I am not opposed to rooting it) Nook Simple Touch that I've been playing around, and so far PDF and EPUB work fine on it when I send those formats to the device. I sent some MOBI files over, and those did not convert, but the Nook seems not to recognize the books (the books do not show up at all in looking through the Library on the reader itself, though when I connect it to my computer (running Ubuntu 11.04) the MOBI books are visible in nautilus. Am I missing something? Or do I need to tell it what to do? I looked through preferences & device, but didn't see anything obvious... (I also searched thru this forum on nook & mobi but did not find any previous thread that was applicable to this question.) Thanks!

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12-23-2011, 10:49 PM	#2
irishtexmex Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Notre Dame, IN/Austin, TX Device: Kindle Voygae (Old: B&N Nook ST)	You could just manually convert (in bulk, obviously) beforehand and then sync the epubs over to the Nook.

12-24-2011, 12:19 AM	#3
tittle65 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	Yeah, I wound up doing that, but I would really rather not fill up my disk space with extra copies of converted books, and then it seems when I migrate the book to the nook, it's picking up all versions of it, so then I have to go back into the nook and delete the unreadable formats. This seems like more flailing about than I thought it would be. Is there a way to only port one format of a book over? When I click on a book, it acts singularly in the Calibre panel, I just have the bit on the right that lists all the formats it is available in. I don't seem to have a way of picking one or the other before I hit the device button. Thanks for your reply!

12-24-2011, 01:57 AM	#4
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,553 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	When you send a book to a device, Calibre will only send one format. It will pick the one that is highest up the list of those ticked as supported in the driver for that device, If no compatible format exists it will first run a conversion to the highest listed format marked as supported. The only way you should be ale to get extra formats on the device would be if you did the transfer using something other than the Calibre Send to Device feature.

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