[Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver

[Matze1810]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

All books or only this one book?

All books. But the gap varies between the books.

If I convert the book in Calibre and then send it to my Kobo, everything is fine. The strange formatting only occurs when I send the ebook directly via Kobo Touch Extended

[antifuchs]

Originally Posted by fogice

And yet *another* missing chapter, this book was missing Chapter 6. I find it weird that I'm the only one with this issue, I feel like it must be something in my configuration. Is there anything I should try to change or redo on my side? I'm on an M1 Mac.

Oh man, I'm so glad I found your posts. I'm on an M1 Mac as well, and have been seeing that exact problem on occasion, up to the latest calibre (6.9) and KTE plugin (3.6.3), as of a few days ago.

For the longest time, I thought this was related to page breaks on the chapter marker - I would edit the html around the chapter, removing any page breaks, and then on updating the book on the device, that chapter appeared; but from the debugging notes downthread, that sounds like a red herring - if there's a async/threading-related issue, of course re-generating the book would mask the problem with that exact chapter also.

What can I do to help you all debug this? Run in debug mode and check logs? Maybe upload the same book over and over and compare html contents in the epub archive?

[Wiggo]

Could anybody help me with title, subtitle and the template editor?

My titles in Calibre are like "title: subtitle". I want to extract the subtile after the colon and put in the kobo-subtitle, and kobo-title is the "title" part only.

Unfortunately I don't have any clue.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Could anybody help me with title, subtitle and the template editor?

My titles in Calibre are like "title: subtitle". I want to extract the subtile after the colon and put in the kobo-subtitle, and kobo-title is the "title" part only.

Unfortunately I don't have any clue.

For the subtitle in the driver:

program:
	list_split($title, ':', 'v');
# Enter v_0 for the text before the colon, v_1 for the text after the colon
# This doesn't work if the title or subtitle part contains extra colons
# v_1 is empty if there are no colons at all
	v_1

I think you must use a plugboard to change the title -- at least I don't see any way to set the title from inside the driver. The plugboard template would be similar to the above but with v_0 instead of v_1

program:
	list_split($title, ':', 'v');
# Enter v_0 for the text before the colon, v_1 for the text after the colon
# This doesn't work if the title or subtitle part contains extra colons
# v_1 is empty if there are no colons at all
	v_0

[Wiggo]

Thanks again, chaley. I will try it and report.

[Wiggo]

Unfortunately it doesn't work well.

All books get subtitles (=title), even if there is no colon in the title, and the plugboard changes the title to the subtitle.

If I test

program:
	list_split($title, ':', 'v_0');

in the template editor the result is always "subtitle", no matter what 'v_n' I fill in.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Unfortunately it doesn't work well.

All books get subtitles (=title), even if there is no colon in the title, and the plugboard changes the title to the subtitle.

If I test

program:
	list_split($title, ':', 'v_0');

in the template editor the result is always "subtitle", no matter what 'v_n' I fill in.

That template is wrong.

It should be the one below, slightly modified from the one I suggested above because I forgot to initialize v_1. In particular the last line must be there, either v_0 if you want the title or v_1 if you want the subtitle. You can remove the comments (the lines beginning with #).

program:
	v_1 = '';
	list_split($title, ':', 'v');
# Enter v_0 for the text before the colon, v_1 for the text after the colon
# This doesn't work if the title or subtitle part contains extra colons
# v_1 is empty if there are no colons at all
	v_1

The template you wrote will always return the subtitle if there is one, otherwise it will return the title.

[Wiggo]

Now it works like a charm - thank you so much.

A bit embarrassing that I don't get anything at all.
I thought the last line is the "title" of the script.

[Villard]

Hello,
Thanks for your plugin.
I've activated the option, in the "extended options" tab to send the books as kepubs
I've recently noticed the hyperlink is not underlined in the tranfered kepub file when I read on my Kobo Libra2.
If a transfer the file as a pure epub (by copying it on the device root folder), I get the underlined links.

Am I missing an option somewhere ?

Thanks four your reply
Villard

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Villard

Hello,
Thanks for your plugin.
I've activated the option, in the "extended options" tab to send the books as kepubs
I've recently noticed the hyperlink is not underlined in the tranfered kepub file when I read on my Kobo Libra2.
If a transfer the file as a pure epub (by copying it on the device root folder), I get the underlined links.

Am I missing an option somewhere ?

For kepubs the firmware contains a hard-coded style for anchor links, namely,

a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active { border-bottom: 1px dotted black !important; color: #696969 !important; }

You're not missing a built-in option but if it bothers you enough and you're comfortable using kobopatch, there is a patch you can use to disable the dotted underline.

[Villard]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

For kepubs the firmware contains a hard-coded style for anchor links, namely,

a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active { border-bottom: 1px dotted black !important; color: #696969 !important; }

You're not missing a built-in option but if it bothers you enough and you're comfortable using kobopatch, there is a patch you can use to disable the dotted underline.

Thank you.
I've finally found the cause : when in the dark mode, the dotted lines are not visible. Switching back in the light mode, they are visible !
So it was not an issue with the plugin but a mere Kobo feature.
Villard

[robowolf]

Hi! Thank you for this plugin, I use it for managing collections and I love it. I have a question that I have tried to search the answer for, but I did not find it:

So I have the custom Collections column, I set up in Calibre and it syncs with my Kobo. My Kobo now has my custom collections; this is awesome.
When I read in Kobo, however, I move books between collections. For example, on my Kobo, I create a new collection, "Delete"; this is for books I read but do not care for, so I will delete them in Calibre later.
However, when I sync back into Calibre, all changes I made in Kobo have been erased; the Calibre set-up overwrites my changes.

Is there something I need to do so that when I sync my Kobo and Calibre, the changes I made in Kobo sync onto Calibre?

[jackie_w]

As far as I know it's always been a one-way sync only - calibre to Kobo.

For your future info, syncing Collections is unrelated to this plugin, it's handled by the main calibre driver, KoboTouch.

[isarl]

Originally Posted by robowolf

Hi! Thank you for this plugin, I use it for managing collections and I love it. I have a question that I have tried to search the answer for, but I did not find it:

So I have the custom Collections column, I set up in Calibre and it syncs with my Kobo. My Kobo now has my custom collections; this is awesome.
When I read in Kobo, however, I move books between collections. For example, on my Kobo, I create a new collection, "Delete"; this is for books I read but do not care for, so I will delete them in Calibre later.
However, when I sync back into Calibre, all changes I made in Kobo have been erased; the Calibre set-up overwrites my changes.

Is there something I need to do so that when I sync my Kobo and Calibre, the changes I made in Kobo sync onto Calibre?

In the KoboTouch and KoboTouchExtended driver configuration, see the “Metadata, on device & advanced” tab, in particular the “Update metadata on the device” option at the top of the page. This setting controls whether Calibre will update your Kobo with new metadata automatically as soon as Calibre detects that it has been connected. If you disable it, then you should be able to see the modified state of the shelves on your device in the Device view. Note that when you change metadata in your Calibre library you will have to remember to send those updates to the books on your device manually.

E.g., series information only works once a book has already been added to the device library, which is why people install NickelSeries or reconnect their device to Calibre after sending sideloaded books for the first time – so that the KoboTouch[Extended] driver will automatically update the Series metadata when the device reconnects. This would then need to be done manually. (Or you can use NickelSeries. But if you altered something, e.g. the Subtitle or Collection of a book, in Calibre after first sending it, you would need to tell Calibre to send the new metadata.)

[robowolf]

Originally Posted by isarl

In the KoboTouch and KoboTouchExtended driver configuration, see the “Metadata, on device & advanced” tab, in particular the “Update metadata on the device” option at the top of the page. This setting controls whether Calibre will update your Kobo with new metadata automatically as soon as Calibre detects that it has been connected. If you disable it, then you should be able to see the modified state of the shelves on your device in the Device view. Note that when you change metadata in your Calibre library you will have to remember to send those updates to the books on your device manually.

E.g., series information only works once a book has already been added to the device library, which is why people install NickelSeries or reconnect their device to Calibre after sending sideloaded books for the first time – so that the KoboTouch[Extended] driver will automatically update the Series metadata when the device reconnects. This would then need to be done manually. (Or you can use NickelSeries. But if you altered something, e.g. the Subtitle or Collection of a book, in Calibre after first sending it, you would need to tell Calibre to send the new metadata.)

Thank you, this was what I needed!