Updating calibre-books.lua on Kobo

mst · 12-10-2020, 04:03 PM

I deleted books from my Kobo Clara HD, edited them in Calibre and put them back onto the device, however, I still see the deleted books when I search them on KoReader in the Calibre metadata.

The file calibre-books.lua seems to contain that information, but it is now several hours old, even though I just finished putting new books on and Calibre transferred the metadata. Simply deleting that file will create a new one, but then, tags and series information are missing that were showing up properly before. Extracting and pruning metadata directly on KoReader also does not change this, so doesn't Calibre's "update cached metadata on device". For some reason, KoReader fails to properly refresh the metadata on the device.

How could I force a refresh of calibre-books.lua and make the missing files go away?

davidfor · 12-10-2020, 06:39 PM

Calibre has no code to support KOReader. And it is not generating that "calibre-books.lua". I assume KOReader is doing that after you disconnect the device. I would suggest you ask this question in the KOReader forum.

12-10-2020, 04:03 PM	#1
mst Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kobo Clara HD	Updating calibre-books.lua on Kobo I deleted books from my Kobo Clara HD, edited them in Calibre and put them back onto the device, however, I still see the deleted books when I search them on KoReader in the Calibre metadata. The file calibre-books.lua seems to contain that information, but it is now several hours old, even though I just finished putting new books on and Calibre transferred the metadata. Simply deleting that file will create a new one, but then, tags and series information are missing that were showing up properly before. Extracting and pruning metadata directly on KoReader also does not change this, so doesn't Calibre's "update cached metadata on device". For some reason, KoReader fails to properly refresh the metadata on the device. How could I force a refresh of calibre-books.lua and make the missing files go away? Last edited by mst; 12-10-2020 at 04:20 PM.

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12-10-2020, 06:39 PM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Calibre has no code to support KOReader. And it is not generating that "calibre-books.lua". I assume KOReader is doing that after you disconnect the device. I would suggest you ask this question in the KOReader forum.

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