[Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver

[Sir Loyne]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Since you've not used Windows 10, you don't actually know that it's better then Windows 7. I've used both. SO I know that Windows 10 is better then Windows 7.

If you have a muli-core 64-bit processor, you can run Windows 10.

I've tried 8, 8.1, and 10. They're all worse than 7, which is way worse than XP.

[Sir Loyne]

Originally Posted by PeterT

No, you only have to add books ONCE; ypu do need to CONNECT via USB twice; once to send the books and a second time to set series data.

However, there is a tool you can install on the Kobo that will add series data automatically. See https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ns/ for NickelSeries thus avoiding the 2nd connect.

That sounds great. I'll try it when I get a chance. The worst that can happen is that I'll have to restore my Kobo and re-add my books.

[Sir Loyne]

Originally Posted by PeterT

No, you only have to add books ONCE; ypu do need to CONNECT via USB twice; once to send the books and a second time to set series data.

However, there is a tool you can install on the Kobo that will add series data automatically. See https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ns/ for NickelSeries thus avoiding the 2nd connect.

I got that added to my Kobo. After teh update and reboot, I added a few books. They were automatically converted to kepubs and sorted by series number on the first go. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you very much.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sir Loyne

I've tried 8, 8.1, and 10. They're all worse than 7, which is way worse than XP.

Trust me, 10 is better then XP and 7. And even if you think otherwise, you do need to upgrade so you can run the latest calibre. Besides, you'll get used to Windows 10 in no time.

[theducks]

Unless you have the 64 bit XP (pretty rare, relatively), going 64bit is a plus.
FWIW I ran XPpro for the longest. I started Windows with W3.1, which also supported my DOS networked devices (I later went Netware 4.2)

Now comes the differences in opinion
VISTA was a PITA (at least when I went upgrade from XPpro on my AMD Athelon)

To me, W7 did fix a lot of holes (I had used BSD at work) and it gave me Media Centre (HD TV recording).

I tried W8 while waiting for doors to be unlocked in the MS demo room. I HATE TILES. (UBUNTU went down that path )

Then W10 undid some of the (perceived gains) by removing Media center and no longer having drivers for my older HW. At least W10 is stable.

My one foray into W11 was frustrating. They buried, moved or dumbed down the users ability to do much of the stuff we had been using since W3

Also, 7 Windows machines (Celeron, Core duo and i7, AMD) and NONE will pass the W11 HW check. And I can't even use the 32 bit HW as a Remote Desktop Connection TERMINAL (That was how I did my initial 900 Calibre entries of my Paper Library that was on My home office tower. REMOTE, not a share)

So as you can see, 900 users, 1000 opinions

[Sir Loyne]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Trust me, 10 is better then XP and 7. And even if you think otherwise, you do need to upgrade so you can run the latest calibre. Besides, you'll get used to Windows 10 in no time.

I don't need to update Calibre as it already does everything I want it to do.

Anecdotal Fallacy

[Sir Loyne]

MY computer is mostly for keeping my music on and paying bills. It's more of a tool than a toy.

With Windows XP I could "Group By Name" and it would actually be useful. There would be an "A" and all of my music folders that started with an A would be there. Then there would be a "B" and all of my music folders that started with a B would be there. Then there would be a "C" and all of my music folders that started with a C would be there. You get the idea. Now "Group By Name is a gigantic block of A-H, I-P, and Q-Z. That's completely worthless.

And XP could remember the size and location of hundreds of folders. After that? One... the last one that was opened. I'm sure lots of people are swayed by the bright colors and round corners, but I'm not. Everything after XP has been crap. And each pile of crap is bigger than the one before it.

[severe.syllabi]

Originally Posted by njf

Hi

I'm new to Kobo, having decided I do not like Amazon Kindle's practices. I am waiting for my Libra Colour to arrive and have been trying to update my Calibre for it.

I have read about the advantages of kobotouchextended but am having a problem installing it.

I install it from Calibre | Preferences | Plugins and it says it was successfully installed and to Restart Calibre, which I do. However, when I go back to Calibre | Preferences | Plugins, it says it is not installed.

What am I doing wrong? Is it anything to do with my not having my Kobo yet?

TIA

I'm having the same issue today. I even see it in my Installed plugins list for a brief moment but then it's gone.

Has anyone gotten back to you with a solution?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by severe.syllabi

I'm having the same issue today. I even see it in my Installed plugins list for a brief moment but then it's gone.

Has anyone gotten back to you with a solution?

You should have read the post after the one you quoted.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...17#post4520317

[severe.syllabi]

Originally Posted by chaley

You should have read the post after the one you quoted.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...17#post4520317

Thank you! I honestly did not see that

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Originally Posted by theducks

…
Now comes the differences in opinion
VISTA was a PITA (at least when I went upgrade from XPpro on my AMD Athelon)

To me, W7 did fix a lot of holes (I had used BSD at work) and it gave me Media Centre (HD TV recording).

I tried W8 while waiting for doors to be unlocked in the MS demo room. I HATE TILES. (UBUNTU went down that path )

Then W10 undid some of the (perceived gains) by removing Media center and no longer having drivers for my older HW. At least W10 is stable.

My one foray into W11 was frustrating. They buried, moved or dumbed down the users ability to do much of the stuff we had been using since W3

Also, 7 Windows machines (Celeron, Core duo and i7, AMD) and NONE will pass the W11 HW check. And I can't even use the 32 bit HW as a Remote Desktop Connection TERMINAL (That was how I did my initial 900 Calibre entries of my Paper Library that was on My home office tower. REMOTE, not a share)

So as you can see, 900 users, 1000 opinions

I really tried Vista, 7 and 10. Still have an XP, Win7 and Win10 (laptops & desktops).

Been using Windows since 3.1, NT since 3.51.
Dual boot with Linux since about 1999.
Eventually changed daily laptop from XP to Win7 64 bit in Nov 2016.
But Jan 2017 I finally wiped the Win7 content. I now have my "best" XP, Win7 and Win10 machines cloned to VMs on Linux using MS's tool Disk2VHD, though hardly used.

Win7 simply fixed Vista.

GUI & locations of Win 10 settings is terrible. Home version is terrible. The 11 is pointless "security theatre". You are fighting against adverts, widgets, stupid settings, missing GUI stuff, horrible "Modern" Apps and totally broken GUI (Is the text a text, or button, or link or?). Evil Update system. Lack of customisation. More stupid services, telemetry and settings with bad defaults than ever. Win98SE at least ran games. NT 3.51, 4.0, Win2K and XP behaved as expected.


EDIT
On XP you could easily turn off Autoruns, stupid services, animations, stupid search dog & indexing and Fisher-Price look to have clean GUI. We used NT 4.0 till XP had a decent service pack. Win2K was unfinished.

With Vista you could turn off stupid Aero and other junk and have it more like Win98/NT4.0/2K/XP-Classic, but a bit buggy. Win7 should have been free. But both less customisable and more stupid defaults. Unwanted features added to File Explorer without fixing bugs.

The Win10 isn't fixed by adding 3rd party Start & Explorer customisations. It reminds me of Win 3.0 on Mono CGA or Hercules.

Hiding stuff you don't use often is the stupidest thing ever. As is using telemetry to remove seldom used features in later releases because the telemetry doesn't say how important it is.

MS lost the plot during Vista development, back in 2003. They are now obsessed with AI, "Cloud" (= subscription on someone else's server over the Internet). They have ignored / scrapped 30 years of GUI expertise. They have largely scrapped test & QA. Update system is an insult.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Sir Loyne

I don't need to update Calibre as it already does everything I want it to do.

Anecdotal Fallacy

Okay, you don't want anecdotes. How about this?

While fewer malware files were seen in 2017 than in 2016,
the numbers are more striking when viewed by operating
system. Only 15% of the total files determined to be malware
in 2017 were seen on Windows 10 systems, while a full 63%
were found on Windows 7, the next-most-common OS for
businesses. On Windows 10 systems, we saw an average of
.04 malware files per device, a strong contrast with .08 on
Windows 7.

The occurrence of malware per non-business device at the
end of 2017 was .07 for Windows 10, versus .16 for Windows
7 and .17 on Windows XP. As with business devices, Windows
10 is more than twice as safe as Windows 7 for home user
devices. The volume of malware per device remained constant
throughout 2017, at an average of .55 files per device.

2018 report from Webroot. Vulnerabilities are everywhere, browsing a website (and not just shady porn sites-- Forbes once infected users because of their ad provider).

The gap will only increase as time goes on Browsers are dropping support (Chrome's already done so, Firefox in a few months), which drastically increases your risk of hitting ransomware or password-stealers or some other nasty.

[PeterT]

Moderator Notice
While this discussion of the pros and cons of various Windows releases might be fascinating, please take it to the Lounge.

Peter

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Addendum.

You can't make one GUI for everything.

Laptop/Desktop needs a different GUI to a phone. Larger tablets are either limited by phone GUI, or crippled for content creation. Hence Chrome OS and Google's experiments with Windowing on larger Android. Chrome OS seems to do hybrid GUI better than MS Surface / Tablet, which doesn't quite work (Debian with Mate worked better on my Windows Tablet than Win10!).

I really gave ChromeOS a good try on an "netbook" sized laptop. In the end swapping BIOS to native boot Mint + Mate desktop only, works far better. Many Android Apps don't work on x86-64 ChromeOS, which uses a emulator anyway (can be done on linux) and the Linux on ChromeOS is crippled as it's in a container. No sensible interface to the Linux ChromeOS is running on, and everything is done by the Chrome Browser.

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You can't use old OS or Browser on the Internet. Only standalone.

New HW able to run latest Calibre and Linux is under €300.

Any 10 year old 64 bit HW with 2G RAM minimum will run latest Linux Mint, Mate Desktop and Calibre.