Help needed: Detailed set up of Libra 2 - including calibre and plugins

[davidfor]

@candyland550: Have you read a book on your new ereader yet?

My personal advice for new ereader users is very simple: Put a book on it and read.

Don't worry about calibre, collections, series etc until later. Nothing that anyone has mentioned in this thread is in anyway mandatory. These devices work fine without calibre. You can simply copy books to the device manually with no problems. And if you want to buy books from Kobo, you don't ever need to connect it to a PC.

Read a book on it. Play with the options. Work out what you like and don't like. Then you can decide what you need.

Long term, calibre is a good idea. It is great for managing the library. You can update the metadata if you so desire and have calibre update the device. If you are getting books from multiple shops in different formats, then it can be used for converting books to the appropriate format for your device.

But, for now, read a book and enjoy your new ereader. Or maybe you will discover you don't like it and want to go back to the tablet. Or paper books.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by davidfor

@candyland550: Have you read a book on your new ereader yet?

My personal advice for new ereader users is very simple: Put a book on it and read.

Completely agree that this should be the first thing.

Just don't painstakingly organise a thousand sideload books into collections on the device and only then ask how to back up that organisation

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by candyland550

Also when I tried to upload some books using Calibre I got this error message, what should I do?

calibre, version 6.1.0
WARNING: Failed: Kobo database version unsupported - See details

Your Kobo is running an updated firmware/database version. As calibre does not know about this updated firmware, database editing is disabled, to prevent corruption. You can still send books to your Kobo with calibre, but deleting books and managing collections is disabled. If you are willing to experiment and know how to reset your Kobo to Factory defaults, you can override this check by right clicking the device icon in calibre and selecting "Configure this device" and then the "Attempt to support newer firmware" option. Doing so may require you to perform a Factory reset of your Kobo.

Discussion of any new Kobo firmware can be found in the Kobo forum at MobileRead. This is at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/fo...play.php?f=223.

Device database version: 171.
Device firmware version: 4.33.19759

Install Calibre 6.2 that will not give you that message as it adds support for the new firmware.

[BookCat]

Originally Posted by candyland550

If you are willing to experiment and know how to reset your Kobo to Factory defaults, you can override this check by right clicking the device icon in calibre and selecting "Configure this device" and then the "Attempt to support newer firmware" option. Doing so may require you to perform a Factory reset of your Kobo.

Discussion of any new Kobo firmware can be found in the Kobo forum at MobileRead. This is at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/fo...play.php?f=223.

Device database version: 171.
Device firmware version: 4.33.19759

When I (temporarily) updated my Kobo to 4.31, from 4.30, I had the same message. Ignore the threatened reset and just right click the device icon, following the steps to configure it to your device.
I went back to 4.30, which I prefer.

You don't need to worry about any of this until a) you feel comfortable doing them and b) you feel the need for any of the functions provided, then take each need one at a time.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by candyland550

Also when I tried to upload some books using Calibre I got this error message, what should I do?

calibre, version 6.1.0
WARNING: Failed: Kobo database version unsupported - See details

Your Kobo is running an updated firmware/database version. As calibre does not know about this updated firmware, database editing is disabled, to prevent corruption. You can still send books to your Kobo with calibre, but deleting books and managing collections is disabled. If you are willing to experiment and know how to reset your Kobo to Factory defaults, you can override this check by right clicking the device icon in calibre and selecting "Configure this device" and then the "Attempt to support newer firmware" option. Doing so may require you to perform a Factory reset of your Kobo.

Discussion of any new Kobo firmware can be found in the Kobo forum at MobileRead. This is at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/fo...play.php?f=223.

Device database version: 171.
Device firmware version: 4.33.19759

You can override the check or install calibre 6.2.1 (6.2.0 had the update for the Kobo database version but had a bug in the content server that was fixed in 6.2.1).

I would agree with @davidfor and others. Start reading books and then decide what, if any, changes you want to make.