Don't sync covers

Bryanhoop · 12-16-2011, 12:58 PM

Is there any way to prevent Calibre from syncing covers to my Kindle? I have quite a large collection and space is getting tight on my Kindle 4.

kovidgoyal · 12-16-2011, 10:51 PM

calibre does not put covers separately on Kindles, as long as you use Send to Device. in calibre.

HarryT · 12-17-2011, 03:15 AM

Please don't hijack someone else's thread to ask an unrelated question - it's very impolite. Start a new thread.

Thanks.

Bryanhoop · 12-17-2011, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

calibre does not put covers separately on Kindles, as long as you use Send to Device. in calibre.

Ahhh, so I would likely need to delete the first page in my e-books that display a cover on my device. Gotcha. I had just assumed Calibre was adding them to the e-books on sync or metadata update.

Which leads me to a question: the size of the folder contents where I store my e-books is ~1.1GB. This includes the cover art and calibre metadata files, so I would assume that the actual disk space of just the ebooks would be much lower.

However, when I sync my books to my 2GB Kindle, it takes up virtually all of the space (30 MB remaining). I realize that only ~1.4GB is available for ebooks but I would expect much more space would be available.

HarryT · 12-17-2011, 01:40 PM

How big is the "documents" folder on your Kindle? The Kindle has a fair amount of overhead for things like its index files.

Bryanhoop · 12-19-2011, 02:40 PM

The documents folder is only 1GB. The search indexes folder is 330MB! Holy smokes, is that normal? I never use the search function, so this seems like such a waste.

HarryT · 12-20-2011, 03:41 AM

That sounds about right. I currently have 585 books on my Kindle. My "documents" folder is 445MB, "Search Indexes" is 181MB. ie, indexes are 40% of the size of the books.

12-16-2011, 12:58 PM	#1
Bryanhoop Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle 4	Don't sync covers Is there any way to prevent Calibre from syncing covers to my Kindle? I have quite a large collection and space is getting tight on my Kindle 4.

12-20-2011, 03:41 AM	#7
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	That sounds about right. I currently have 585 books on my Kindle. My "documents" folder is 445MB, "Search Indexes" is 181MB. ie, indexes are 40% of the size of the books. Last edited by HarryT; 12-20-2011 at 03:46 AM.

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12-16-2011, 10:51 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,149 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre does not put covers separately on Kindles, as long as you use Send to Device. in calibre.

12-17-2011, 03:15 AM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Please don't hijack someone else's thread to ask an unrelated question - it's very impolite. Start a new thread. Thanks.

12-17-2011, 01:40 PM	#5
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	How big is the "documents" folder on your Kindle? The Kindle has a fair amount of overhead for things like its index files.

12-19-2011, 02:40 PM	#6
Bryanhoop Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle 4	The documents folder is only 1GB. The search indexes folder is 330MB! Holy smokes, is that normal? I never use the search function, so this seems like such a waste.

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