Touch KOBO READER TOUCH & CALIBRE

D.. · 01-10-2012, 11:33 AM

My Sony gave up the ghost at Xmas so I bought the new Kobo Touch. I have always used Calibre so loaded books straight from Calibre but found that the bottom line of a page was sometimes cut off by the margin for the page no. Tried changing line spacing, margins, justification etc no luck. then tried reconvertin them in Calibre using Kobo as my Reader instead of the previous Sony, but still no difference, the bottom lines disappears on some pages. Any ideas on this please?
Another small problem, is there any way of closing the Reader and re-opening on the same page of the same book? A small annoyance but when I put the Reader down for ten minutes it would be nice to return to the same page instead of going through the start-up library etc again. A few years' ago, I had a B-Book Reader which was "battery economical" to just leave it open on the reading page as, evidently, only turning the page used the battery power. It was so much easier to just pick it up and carry on reading and even the Sony turned back on went straight to the current reading page. Would be nice to have th choice on a menu or am I missing this instruction please

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voom · 01-10-2012, 12:09 PM

Don't know about the first part as I don't experience that problem (though I read here that others do)...

...but as to returning to the page you were on this is exactly what happens if the Touch goes to sleep. When powering off it seems you go back to the home page after wake up and return to the last saved "reading-mark" of the book; I am not sure if powering off without leaving the book first automatically sets a mark.

Anyway, going to sleep manually is by pulling the powerbutton shortly, powering off holding it longer. In the settings you can select auto-sleep and auto-power-off times and activate both or only one of them and select for each if the cover should be shown in that mode.

I have auto-sleep set at 15 minutes and auto-power-off deactivated, that should result in what you are looking for.

The Terminator · 01-10-2012, 12:19 PM

All you need to do is update the firmware on the Kobo Touch, this was a bug a few months ago.

Also with the updated firmware you should get;

1. Highlighting for All books no matter were they came from.

2. Multiple Bookmarks for all books

3. Notes for all books, note syncing for Kobo books.

4. Faster page turning and a crisper text.

5. The option to either display "Shortlist" "Recommended reads (Based on your purchase history, it doesn't read your sideloaded content)" or "New Releases" in a carousel on your home screen.

6. You can check the time while reading by opening the menu.

Some people are not liking the carousel but I really like it personally. I usually set it to display my Shortlist, so if you don't like the recommendations or the new releases you can just set it to that.

kiwipippa · 01-10-2012, 02:00 PM

As terminator says, this was a known issue between calibre and the kobo touch several firmware versions ago.

To upgrade your kobo simply do a sync and the latest firmware will download.

Also, you should make sure that you have an up to date version of calibre running as well, a couple of releases ago some changes were made to the way it interacts with the kobo touch.

D.. · 01-13-2012, 04:42 AM

Thanks for that, really helpful. Have upgraded the software as you recommended, didnt realise that as it was brand new it would need upgrading already as I hadnt put the Kobo Desktop on as I use Calibre! I will try your suggestion of sleeping the Touch and not powering off, hopefully this wont affect the battery too much.
One other point, if you could help please. I seem to have my books listed haphazardly in the Library. In Calibre I always list by author - surname first and amend the metadata accordingly, but they seem to transfer to the Touch sometimes alphabetically but odd books thrown in [I have my library as author sort]. I gather it means that the meta data isnt correct via Calibre? Is this so as I cannot see anything wrong when checking the Calibre metadata format. Thanks

danskmacabre · 01-13-2012, 05:30 AM

Calibre sorts books how you want, but As far as I know you can't change how books are sorted or put them into categories once they get onto the Kobo Touch.
It's a feature that has been requested a lot here though, so maybe it will have that one day.

There's 2 ways around it. You can add a book to a shortlist, which is what I do to books that I'm currently reading.

you can also search for a book, putting in an author name or title, look for the magnifying glass into the library option.

John F · 01-13-2012, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by D..

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One other point, if you could help please. I seem to have my books listed haphazardly in the Library. In Calibre I always list by author - surname first and amend the metadata accordingly, but they seem to transfer to the Touch sometimes alphabetically but odd books thrown in [I have my library as author sort]. I gather it means that the meta data isnt correct via Calibre? Is this so as I cannot see anything wrong when checking the Calibre metadata format. Thanks

In Calibre, for the Author tag/field, I use "last name, first name (King, Stephen for example)". When I transfer them to The Kobo Touch, and go to the library, sorted by author, they are in the correct order.

Cdesja5 · 01-15-2012, 07:32 PM

Calibre will use the original metadata for the transfer even if you have made changes...Someone on another thread suggested that I do another epub to epub convert and then remove the original epub and keep the new one (with the new metadata). It works! Then when you transfer to a device, all your covers, metadata are as per the corrected version and don't revert.

The Terminator · 01-15-2012, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D..

Thanks for that, really helpful. Have upgraded the software as you recommended, didnt realise that as it was brand new it would need upgrading already as I hadnt put the Kobo Desktop on as I use Calibre!

They Kobo's come with the version of Firmware was current at the factory.

D.. · 01-16-2012, 04:56 AM

Thanks for that, the new firmware has sorted out the last line on the page problem and the sleep mode is great, opens straight up on the last page read. I will have to try your method of deleting the original epub file from calibre as I have all of the surnames first but the original files didnt, it obviously picks up on the original epub file. Thanks for all of your help a new book reader is a bit of a shock after getting used to the old one but at last I am finding my way round and find it better than the Sony. Praise indeed!!

01-10-2012, 11:33 AM	#1
D.. Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 16196 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kobo & Kindle	KOBO READER TOUCH & CALIBRE My Sony gave up the ghost at Xmas so I bought the new Kobo Touch. I have always used Calibre so loaded books straight from Calibre but found that the bottom line of a page was sometimes cut off by the margin for the page no. Tried changing line spacing, margins, justification etc no luck. then tried reconvertin them in Calibre using Kobo as my Reader instead of the previous Sony, but still no difference, the bottom lines disappears on some pages. Any ideas on this please? Another small problem, is there any way of closing the Reader and re-opening on the same page of the same book? A small annoyance but when I put the Reader down for ten minutes it would be nice to return to the same page instead of going through the start-up library etc again. A few years' ago, I had a B-Book Reader which was "battery economical" to just leave it open on the reading page as, evidently, only turning the page used the battery power. It was so much easier to just pick it up and carry on reading and even the Sony turned back on went straight to the current reading page. Would be nice to have th choice on a menu or am I missing this instruction please?

01-10-2012, 12:19 PM	#3
The Terminator Retired Posts: 2,552 Karma: 37638420 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver Island Canada Device: Kobo Touch, Optimus One (2.3), Nexus 7 (4.2)	All you need to do is update the firmware on the Kobo Touch, this was a bug a few months ago. Also with the updated firmware you should get; 1. Highlighting for All books no matter were they came from. 2. Multiple Bookmarks for all books 3. Notes for all books, note syncing for Kobo books. 4. Faster page turning and a crisper text. 5. The option to either display "Shortlist" "Recommended reads (Based on your purchase history, it doesn't read your sideloaded content)" or "New Releases" in a carousel on your home screen. 6. You can check the time while reading by opening the menu. Some people are not liking the carousel but I really like it personally. I usually set it to display my Shortlist, so if you don't like the recommendations or the new releases you can just set it to that. Last edited by The Terminator; 01-10-2012 at 12:22 PM.

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01-10-2012, 12:09 PM	#2
voom Just me :) Posts: 106 Karma: 1282 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Germany Device: Kobo Touch	Don't know about the first part as I don't experience that problem (though I read here that others do)... ...but as to returning to the page you were on this is exactly what happens if the Touch goes to sleep. When powering off it seems you go back to the home page after wake up and return to the last saved "reading-mark" of the book; I am not sure if powering off without leaving the book first automatically sets a mark. Anyway, going to sleep manually is by pulling the powerbutton shortly, powering off holding it longer. In the settings you can select auto-sleep and auto-power-off times and activate both or only one of them and select for each if the cover should be shown in that mode. I have auto-sleep set at 15 minutes and auto-power-off deactivated, that should result in what you are looking for.

01-10-2012, 02:00 PM	#4
kiwipippa Fanatic Posts: 578 Karma: 613022 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: kobo glo, kobo touch (dead), kindle touch, android phone	As terminator says, this was a known issue between calibre and the kobo touch several firmware versions ago. To upgrade your kobo simply do a sync and the latest firmware will download. Also, you should make sure that you have an up to date version of calibre running as well, a couple of releases ago some changes were made to the way it interacts with the kobo touch.

01-13-2012, 04:42 AM	#5
D.. Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 16196 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kobo & Kindle	Thanks for that, really helpful. Have upgraded the software as you recommended, didnt realise that as it was brand new it would need upgrading already as I hadnt put the Kobo Desktop on as I use Calibre! I will try your suggestion of sleeping the Touch and not powering off, hopefully this wont affect the battery too much. One other point, if you could help please. I seem to have my books listed haphazardly in the Library. In Calibre I always list by author - surname first and amend the metadata accordingly, but they seem to transfer to the Touch sometimes alphabetically but odd books thrown in [I have my library as author sort]. I gather it means that the meta data isnt correct via Calibre? Is this so as I cannot see anything wrong when checking the Calibre metadata format. Thanks

01-13-2012, 05:30 AM	#6
danskmacabre Guru Posts: 733 Karma: 3593438 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Glo. Galaxy Tab S 8.4	Calibre sorts books how you want, but As far as I know you can't change how books are sorted or put them into categories once they get onto the Kobo Touch. It's a feature that has been requested a lot here though, so maybe it will have that one day. There's 2 ways around it. You can add a book to a shortlist, which is what I do to books that I'm currently reading. you can also search for a book, putting in an author name or title, look for the magnifying glass into the library option.

01-15-2012, 07:32 PM	#8
Cdesja5 Wizard Posts: 1,117 Karma: 2094306 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Montreal, Canada Device: Lots and lots of electronic gadgets...	Calibre will use the original metadata for the transfer even if you have made changes...Someone on another thread suggested that I do another epub to epub convert and then remove the original epub and keep the new one (with the new metadata). It works! Then when you transfer to a device, all your covers, metadata are as per the corrected version and don't revert.

01-16-2012, 04:56 AM	#10
D.. Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 16196 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kobo & Kindle	Thanks for that, the new firmware has sorted out the last line on the page problem and the sleep mode is great, opens straight up on the last page read. I will have to try your method of deleting the original epub file from calibre as I have all of the surnames first but the original files didnt, it obviously picks up on the original epub file. Thanks for all of your help a new book reader is a bit of a shock after getting used to the old one but at last I am finding my way round and find it better than the Sony. Praise indeed!!

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