Kobo Libra Color and Google Drive limitations

[eastcoastelle]

Hi there,

I'm a long time e-reader user, but new to these forums. I'm making the transition from the Amazon/Kindle platform to the Kobo platform. I'm knowledgeable with Calibre and have used it for years for my library management. I'm very excited by the integration of Kobo with Google Drive, and I exported all of my books sorted in Calibre by author so each folder is [author name]/[title - author name]. However, it does not show all of the folders on my Kobo, despite the fact that they are uploaded to Google Drive as I have hundreds of authors.

Searching around there seems to be a 10 page limit that Kobo will show of folders/items in Google Drive. Has anyone successfully gotten around this limitation - apart from sorting into further subfolders? That would still not be a great option even if I set up a folder for each letter of the alphabet as some letters might exceed the 10 page limit.

I would prefer not to go to Dropbox due to the cost. Also, does Dropbox have the same limitation?

Thanks in advance for any help!
Elle

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by eastcoastelle

Hi there,

I'm a long time e-reader user, but new to these forums. I'm making the transition from the Amazon/Kindle platform to the Kobo platform. I'm knowledgeable with Calibre and have used it for years for my library management. I'm very excited by the integration of Kobo with Google Drive, and I exported all of my books sorted in Calibre by author so each folder is [author name]/[title - author name]. However, it does not show all of the folders on my Kobo, despite the fact that they are uploaded to Google Drive as I have hundreds of authors.

Searching around there seems to be a 10 page limit that Kobo will show of folders/items in Google Drive. Has anyone successfully gotten around this limitation - apart from sorting into further subfolders? That would still not be a great option even if I set up a folder for each letter of the alphabet as some letters might exceed the 10 page limit.

I would prefer not to go to Dropbox due to the cost. Also, does Dropbox have the same limitation?

Thanks in advance for any help!
Elle

You can sign up to Dropbox and you get 2GB free. I've been using Dropbox for some time and I've never paid for it.

[jackie_w]

@eastcoastelle,

I have some similar anecdotal evidence. I found the Kobo/GoogleDrive feature seems to have limitations that the Kobo/Dropbox feature doesn't have.

In my case I didn't want to create a separate subdirectory for each author but I did want to store every book as 'LN, FN - Title' (because this seems to work well for calibre being able to match them to its library equivalent) and store them in 26 subdirectories, A, B, ..., Z based on 1st char of LN. This worked just fine for Kobo/Dropbox.

However, when I tried to replicate this organisation for Kobo/GoogleDrive I found that each subdirectory could only contain a max. of 100 book files, the rest just "disappeared". I kept the book filenames the same but ended up creating 80 subdirectories (e.g. Aa, Am, Ba, Bark, Be, Bi, ..., Y, Z) to hold them.

I think this GoogleDrive limitation only exists for Kobo because I also use GD to store epubs that I may want to download to my Android phone (if/when Calibre Companion stops working) and the 26 A-Z subdirectories work fine for that. One of the subdirs contains 500+ book files.