Items on Device per Calibre are not on device

[ChipAHoy]

Calibre (when plugged into Kindle Oasis) shows ebooks that are supposed to be on my Kindle, but I don't see them.

Also, in Windows' File Explorer, I see lots of ebooks and documents that are supposed to be on the Kindle, but I can't find them anywhere on the device.

How do I get an accurate list of titles on my Kindle and why does Calibre and File Explorer show all these titles as being on the device?

[kovidgoyal]

Because they are on your kindle. That they dont show up in your kindle's screen just means either that, you are looking in the wrong place, or that the kindle's indexer has crashed and failed to index all books on th ekindle. A Kindle reset will fix that.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ChipAHoy

Calibre (when plugged into Kindle Oasis) shows ebooks that are supposed to be on my Kindle, but I don't see them.

Also, in Windows' File Explorer, I see lots of ebooks and documents that are supposed to be on the Kindle, but I can't find them anywhere on the device.

How do I get an accurate list of titles on my Kindle and why does Calibre and File Explorer show all these titles as being on the device?

If your Kindle is not showing them in any of it's views but calibre and Windows File Explorer do see them, it suggests the issue is with your Kindle. Possibly a book is stuck in indexing which is preventing any newly added books from being seen in the Kindle's GUI though the files are physically present on your Kindle.

What firmware revision are you using?

If you do a search for a garbage string on your Kindle, does it show any books as still indexing? If Text in books is highlighted after the search, tap it and it will show how many books are not indexed, tap that number to get a list of books that are not indexed.

Have you tried resetting your Kindle?

To me, this is an issue with your Kindle and nothing to do with calibre or Windows File Explorer so you might have been better off asking in the Amazon Kindle forum.

[ChipAHoy]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Because they are on your kindle. That they dont show up in your kindle's screen just means either that, you are looking in the wrong place, or that the kindle's indexer has crashed and failed to index all books on th ekindle. A Kindle reset will fix that.

Thanks very much for the reply.

I did a complete reset of the Kindle, wiping everything. Then I transferred some books from my Calibre library to the Kindle.

Again, some of the books (mostly epubs) show up in the Windows directory as being on the Kindle device. I do not understand why they aren't showing up on the Kindle, even under Documents.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by ChipAHoy

Thanks very much for the reply.

I did a complete reset of the Kindle, wiping everything. Then I transferred some books from my Calibre library to the Kindle.

Again, some of the books (mostly epubs) show up in the Windows directory as being on the Kindle device. I do not understand why they aren't showing up on the Kindle, even under Documents.

Because Kindles don't do EPUB . They must be converted (can happen during the transfer. AZW3 is a good choice)
You may have mis-configured the device driver to indicate EPUB was supported

With the device CONNECTED, configure the send to device properties (right click the icon). (once used, a updated COPY is saved in the configuration folder and changes (as in many parts ) in Calibre Preferences do not update those) another choice is to delete that file with the OS before connecting, that will pull a fresh default
The files will be similar to

device_drivers_KINDLE2.py and device_drivers_KINDLE2.py.json

[ChipAHoy]

Thank you so very much! After converting to AZW3, the books now appear. Lesson learned.