CannConnecting Kindle Paperwhite to Calibre under Windows 10

[David57]

Hi,

I recently used the upgrade to Windows 10 and downloaded it. I previously had Windows 7.

I use Calibre 2.47.0 as my ebook manager and now find that when I use the usb cable to connect my kindle to my pc and Calibre so that I can add books to my kindle the device does not show up in Calibre yet shows as drive F on my computer.

When I connect the usb cable from kindle to pc I get the noise which indicates a connection and it shows in the Safely Remove Hardware area as Eject Amazon Kindle.

When I try to open drive F it gives me this error message.....F:\ The directory name is invalid. F:\ is not accessible. A device attached to the system is not functioning.

I have swapped usb cords to see if that would make a difference, no joy. Can anyone help me solve my problem or know of another ebook manager that works with Windows 10 without problems.

I have reinstalled Windows 10

I read through the thread https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...=264201&page=2 trying the things mentioned.

I found under device manager a yellow triangle under portable devices, I did the update driver which came back as the latest driver, did the scan for hardware changes nothing found and then I uninstalled the driver hoping windows 10 would search for a new driver when i reconnect my Kindle, nothing, I found a windows 10 driver for Kindle, downloaded and installed that, nothing. The Device Manager now shows the F:\ under Portable Devices without the yellow triangle however I still cannot get it to connect to Calibre. I have done the normal install and reboots after each function to no avail. I found a couple of the USB controllers updated drivers the Intel (R) 6 series/200......

Can anyone help please.

[JSWolf]

I don't know what the problem is, but Windows 10 and Calibre both work with Kindles. I;ve had three different model Kindles plugged into my laptop running Windows 10 (updated from Windows 8.1)

[David57]

Trying everything I can think of as mentioned above and cannot find a resolution

[Ricky D'Angelo]

I also had the same problem with my kindle fire 7 not connecting to Calibre. A workaround is to simply use calibre to email books to your kindle or use calibre companion.

[David57]

I agree that emailing is an easier option although it does end up on the cloud and the device, is there any way to direct the email to one or the other or deleting the second entry somehow.

[JSWolf]

But you then end up having to convert everything to dual-Mobi/KF8 or you end up with Mobi. So the email solution is not really a solution.

One thing to try is go to the website of whoever made the computer or motherboard and get updated Windows 10 drivers for the USB ports.

[David57]

I still think Calibre is a great program its just that I cannot get it to work with W10 and my kindle. I suspect there is a setting somewhere which I may inadvertently have changed which has caused the problem.

At this stage I now use the following work around and must admit find it quite a lot friendlier to use. I have downloaded Send to Kindle http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/pc. All I have to do is right click on mobi ebooks that is saved to my hard drive and select Send to Kindle, this then sends the book to my kindle email address or any kindle email address that you have loaded into the Send to Kindle program.

The ebook automatically loads onto my kindle for which you must have your kindle connect to wifi and have a kindle email address which you can set up in Amazon. It does require the ebooks to be in mobi format.

I have also downloaded an epub converter to convert epub to mobi if required. I have found this solution best suits my need in the meantime.

Hope this may help others who may have the same problem and thanks for those that helped me earlier on, it is appreciated.

[Ricky D'Angelo]

Originally Posted by David57

I have also downloaded an epub converter to convert epub to mobi if required.

Calibre can do that.

[David57]

I cannot get my Kindle to connect to Calibre and even when I try to email a book to my kindle it fails, the following is the detail;

Is there something I am missing?

Starting job: Email Rough Justice to ...............@kindle.com

Sending failed...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 43, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 130, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 116, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 108, in sendmail_direct
IOError: Failed to send mail: error(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond')


Retrying in 1 seconds...

Waiting 1 seconds before sending, to avoid being marked as spam.
You can control this delay via Preferences->Tweaks

Sending failed...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 43, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 130, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 116, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 108, in sendmail_direct
IOError: Failed to send mail: error(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond')

Job: "Email Rough Justice to .........................@kindle.com" failed with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\threaded_jobs.py", line 83, in start_work
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\email.py", line 98, in __call__
IOError: Failed to send mail: error(10060, 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond')

Called with args: (u'C:\\Users\\David\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre _qjlqcr\\gkw9lkcaltmpfmt.mobi', u'Rough Justice - Stephen Leather.mobi', u'..............................@kindle.com', u'E-book: Rough Justice', u'Attached, you will find the e-book\n\nRough Justice\n\tby Stephen Leather\n\nin the MOBI format.') {u'notifications': <Queue.Queue instance at 0x0B1669B8>, u'abort': <threading._Event object at 0x0B161530>, u'log': <calibre.utils.logging.GUILog object at 0x0B1615B0>}
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[eschwartz]

It looks like calibre is failing to connect to the internet. One possible reason is because an antivirus is being overly protective.

Try excluding calibre from your antivirus.

...

Sorry to hear you are having problems with calibre + Win10 + Kindle.

A number of people have reported the same problem -- the curse of the Windows 10 upgrade. For some reason, Windows is not telling applications that your ereader is a removable drive, so calibre cannot find it to connect to it.

Only in-place upgrades sem to be affected, reinstalling Windows from scratch *should* fix it.
Or you can use Connect-to-folder instead -- it needs to be done manually, but you can connect to any folder and have calibre treat it like a generic device, send books to it, etc.

[PeterT]

@David57: I wonder if you could try something for me...

Open a windows command prompt and type diskpart

There will probably be a prompt from Windows to allow a program to make changes to your computer. Select the OK button

Then type automount

This will display the setting for automatically mounting drives on your computer.

Cut and paste the output in a reply here, or if needs be take a screen print if that's easier.

Finally type exit to leave diskpart.

Thanks

Peter

[David57]

Hi Peter, the following is the information.

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10586

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DAVID-HP

DISKPART> automart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10586

ACTIVE - Mark the selected partition as active.
ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume.
ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume.
ATTRIBUTES - Manipulate volume or disk attributes.
ATTACH - Attaches a virtual disk file.
AUTOMOUNT - Enable and disable automatic mounting of basic volumes.
BREAK - Break a mirror set.
CLEAN - Clear the configuration information, or all information, off the disk.
COMPACT - Attempts to reduce the physical size of the file.
CONVERT - Convert between different disk formats.
CREATE - Create a volume, partition or virtual disk.
DELETE - Delete an object.
DETAIL - Provide details about an object.
DETACH - Detaches a virtual disk file.
EXIT - Exit DiskPart.
EXTEND - Extend a volume.
EXPAND - Expands the maximum size available on a virtual disk.
FILESYSTEMS - Display current and supported file systems on the volume.
FORMAT - Format the volume or partition.
GPT - Assign attributes to the selected GPT partition.
HELP - Display a list of commands.
IMPORT - Import a disk group.
INACTIVE - Mark the selected partition as inactive.
LIST - Display a list of objects.
MERGE - Merges a child disk with its parents.
ONLINE - Online an object that is currently marked as offline.
OFFLINE - Offline an object that is currently marked as online.
RECOVER - Refreshes the state of all disks in the selected pack.
Attempts recovery on disks in the invalid pack, and resynchronizes mirrored volumes and RAID5 volumes
that have stale plex or parity data.
REM - Does nothing. This is used to comment scripts.
REMOVE - Remove a drive letter or mount point assignment.
REPAIR - Repair a RAID-5 volume with a failed member.
RESCAN - Rescan the computer looking for disks and volumes.
RETAIN - Place a retained partition under a simple volume.
SAN - Display or set the SAN policy for the currently booted OS.
SELECT - Shift the focus to an object.
SETID - Change the partition type.
SHRINK - Reduce the size of the selected volume.
UNIQUEID - Displays or sets the GUID partition table (GPT) identifier or master boot record (MBR) signature of a disk.

DISKPART>

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by David57

Hi Peter, the following is the information.

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10586

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DAVID-HP

DISKPART> automart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.10586

ACTIVE - Mark the selected partition as active.
ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume.
ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume.
ATTRIBUTES - Manipulate volume or disk attributes.
ATTACH - Attaches a virtual disk file.
AUTOMOUNT - Enable and disable automatic mounting of basic volumes.

Um, that should have been "automount". The result you got was because the function was not recognised.

[David57]

Need to put glasses on.

It now says Automatic mounting of new volumes enabled. That's all.


David

[PeterT]

Thanks. I had hoped it might say Disabled