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Old 09-21-2016, 06:17 PM   #16
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I cant find my ebooks in the ereader, loaded a bunch with Calibre and.. nothing.
Where did you put the books on the device? When you ejected the device, did the processing screen get shown?

If the books have been found and processed into the internal database, there should be a tile on the home screen. This will show up to three covers and the total number of books added to the device. Tapping that will take you to the library list. Otherwise, they should show when you tap "Read" and then "Books".

If they don't show, then check the filter used. At the top of the list, will be "Show". If you have "Purchased", "Previews" or "OverDrive", then sideloaded books will not be shown. Change the filter to one of the other options, then sideloaded books will be shown.
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I cant find my ebooks in the ereader, loaded a bunch with Calibre and.. nothing.
It's likely that your Kobo hasn’t processed the files loaded onto the device.
You could try deleting the files manually from the file manager in your OS and try again from within Calibre. The safer way though is logging out of your device completely, setting it up again and starting with a fresh database as there could be residual info from writing to the database with Calibre that could cause problems in the future...
With Kobos, it is *really* important that you *always* wait for the device to disconnect itself after ejecting safely, that is the only way the software will start looking for new books and handle them properly. Also, never delete books that *have* been recognized other than from the device software itself! Even though you could do it with Calibre (but never from the file system!), it is safer as that will definitely be registered in the database.
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It's likely that your Kobo hasn’t processed the files loaded onto the device.
Which is of course why I asked if the processing screen was shown. But, I did forget to mention that if there are errors in books that the firmware rejects, then the other books in that batch will not be be processed.
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You could try deleting the files manually from the file manager in your OS and try again from within Calibre. The safer way though is logging out of your device completely, setting it up again and starting with a fresh database as there could be residual info from writing to the database with Calibre that could cause problems in the future...
With Kobos, it is *really* important that you *always* wait for the device to disconnect itself after ejecting safely,
Yes, it is important to safely eject the device. And wait for the OS to tell you that it has been ejected. After that, it is safe to unplug the device.
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that is the only way the software will start looking for new books and handle them properly.
I'm pretty careful about ejecting properly, but I've never had any problems with books not being recognised because I unplugged a bit quickly.
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Also, never delete books that *have* been recognized other than from the device software itself! Even though you could do it with Calibre (but never from the file system!), it is safer as that will definitely be registered in the database.
The rest of this post (the bits I didn't comment on directly) is complete BS.

Unless the database is already corrupt, logging out of the devices and back in is not going to help with this problem.

When sending a new book to the device, calibre doesn't actually update the database on the device. After the send, if you have the collection management options enabled, the books are put into collections. If for some reason the book is not processed, these will still be there, but they are completely safe.

It is perfectly safe to delete books from the device using calibre. The KoboTouch driver does exactly what the device does. I have spent a LOT of time making sure of this. And if anyone does have a problem, please tell me. I'll try and work out what is going wrong and fix it.

It is even safer to simply delete sideloaded books from the device. The firmware knows how to handle this. It will remove the missing books from the database in exactly the same way as if you delete the books through the interface. Some very old firmware didn't do this. But, when you tried to open the book, a message about the book missing was displayed, and the details were removed safely.

@johnnyb: Please don't spread misinformation about something you obviously don't know anything about.
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The rest of this post (the bits I didn't comment on directly) is complete BS.

Unless the database is already corrupt, logging out of the devices and back in is not going to help with this problem.

When sending a new book to the device, calibre doesn't actually update the database on the device. After the send, if you have the collection management options enabled, the books are put into collections. If for some reason the book is not processed, these will still be there, but they are completely safe.

It is perfectly safe to delete books from the device using calibre. The KoboTouch driver does exactly what the device does. I have spent a LOT of time making sure of this. And if anyone does have a problem, please tell me. I'll try and work out what is going wrong and fix it.

It is even safer to simply delete sideloaded books from the device. The firmware knows how to handle this. It will remove the missing books from the database in exactly the same way as if you delete the books through the interface. Some very old firmware didn't do this. But, when you tried to open the book, a message about the book missing was displayed, and the details were removed safely.

@johnnyb: Please don't spread misinformation about something you obviously don't know anything about.
I already wondered if I had a unique device as I often remove books and add books using Calibre I actually wouldn't even know how to do it on the device itself...
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Ok I will stop sharing from my experience because I am apparently holding it wrong...

Edit: Still doesn't mean that the Aura One is not objectively s*** atm...
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Ok I will stop sharing from my experience because I am apparently holding it wrong...
My issue is that you made statements as fact that are wrong. Lots of people do exactly the things that you said were dangerous with no problems. And at least of one of them is how the device is designed to work.

If you are experiencing these problems with recent firmware and versions of calibre, then please report them properly. Then maybe we can work out why they are happening to you and no-one else. Or maybe others will jump in and say they are seeing those problems as well.
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Edit: Still doesn't mean that the Aura One is not objectively s*** atm...
And you are entitled to that opinion. But it is an opinion as there are plenty of people here with a different view.
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Thank you all for the advices!

I love this device but i really don t know what to do? To send the device back or to wait for firmware update?
- Keyboard is sometimes off by one key, laggy and unresponsive, almost imposible to read a PDF or a cbr/cbz...
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Thank you all for the advices!
I assume you managed to find the books. For my curiosity, what was the problem?
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I love this device but i really don t know what to do? To send the device back or to wait for firmware update?
There should be an update out next week. One source says the 26th, but, I'm expecting later in the week.
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- Keyboard is sometimes off by one key, laggy and unresponsive, almost imposible to read a PDF
I can't help with those and and the only PDF I keep on my ereaders is the train timetable. That's formatted for a small page and works well. Larger pages, not good.
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or a cbr/cbz...
What's the problem with CBR/CBZ? I'm not a comic reader, but I've done enough experimenting with them on the smaller Kobo devices that I thought the Aura ONE would be good for them. And I'm sure I've seen some comments that it was good.
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I love this device but i really don t know what to do? To send the device back or to wait for firmware update?
- Keyboard is sometimes off by one key, laggy and unresponsive, almost imposible to read a PDF or a cbr/cbz...
Hope you managed to get the books to show up!
I myself have made it a rule to return stuff that is not working as expected (used to be the norm for most people, not anymore I think). As the Aura One (for you) apparently isn’t, you might want to do that. I had a hard time myself sticking to that rule because the display (size and clarity) in daylight is just so gorgeous.
But in the end, I still was too annoyed with everything else to justify keeping the device hoping that Kobo would come around to fixing everything (and some things are unfixable by software alone, e.g. the uneven red light), especially knowing that Kobo is notorious for introducing new bugs and problems with new iterations of their firmware (that’s at least the experience I made with my H2O).
In the end, it is also a matter of value: I might have kept the device around if it was perhaps a hundred quid, but sinking more than that into something on the vague hope that after a year or two, it might perform the way it was supposed to is not something that I want to do anymore.
Side note: I am actually (secretly ) considering going to the store after the next firmware update to see if it works better now (and if I can get one that has even comfort light and no click in the lower part of the backplate), but I am unsure whether that is time well spent...
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What's the problem with CBR/CBZ? I'm not a comic reader, but I've done enough experimenting with them on the smaller Kobo devices that I thought the Aura ONE would be good for them. And I'm sure I've seen some comments that it was good.
Trying to bypass the problem with the .pdf format I converted the pdf book to JPEG images - CBR.
After I transferred into the eReader the resulted CBR, the KA1 entered into the loop restart - freeze - restart and so on...The only solution was a factory restore.
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try cbz instead of cbr
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try cbz instead of cbr
Loaded the cbz with Calibre. Eject KA1. The reader freeze for a couple of minutes. After this, restart itself. Click on the cbz and the reader freeze with a white screen. After 10 min i can read the cbz with same lag...
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What resolution do those images have? If they are gigantic that may be part of the issue.

Other than that maybe sickel acting up again after all... if it somehow takes longer to process than sickel allows for it will reboot.
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Maybe this the solution, for the moment, for my pdf needs, pdf to cbz...
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Trying to bypass the problem with the .pdf format I converted the pdf book to JPEG images - CBR.
After I transferred into the eReader the resulted CBR, the KA1 entered into the loop restart - freeze - restart and so on...The only solution was a factory restore.
Ouch. I've just tried a couple here with no problems. Did you try again after the factory reset? I know it's a pain if it doesn't work, but at least you don't have to much to recover this time.

Also, what did you use to do the conversion? I only had a very small CBR, so I had to create another. I did have some PDF comics that were part of some bundle. I couldn't see anything that did a PDF to CBR conversion, so I had to go via epub using calibre followed by an unpack and repack using WinRAR. CBZ would have been a bit quicker.
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