New Clara has preinstalled series and authors. How to delete?

[Dal Bhat]

Didn't count them, but there's a couple of pages of these. Series and authors lists, but no books.

Did a factory reset, but they are part of the factory image.

How to delete?

Edit: enabled sideloaded mode when I first turned it on, if that matters.

[JSWolf]

Which firmware are you running?

Can you use calibre to delete this?

[Dal Bhat]

N365B
4.45.23655

I tried with calibre, but I don't know how to display them, if possible.

[Dal Bhat]

Would deleting the file .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite fix this? I have not sideloaded any of my own books.

[toady42]

Originally Posted by Dal Bhat

Didn't count them, but there's a couple of pages of these. Series and authors lists, but no books.

Did a factory reset, but they are part of the factory image.

How to delete?

Edit: enabled sideloaded mode when I first turned it on, if that matters.

See if this Reddit post helps and the response from ca_falla:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/commen...t=share_button

[Dal Bhat]

Originally Posted by Dal Bhat

Would deleting the file .kobo/KoboReader.sqlite fix this? I have not sideloaded any of my own books.

Yes, yes it does. The Clara opens as a blank slate without that pre-existing database.

[psy65]

I had the exact same issue. If you use calibre with the kobo pluging, there is an option to see previews. Once activated when you click on the'device' button in the ribbon, you should see everything. From there you can delete everything

[Dal Bhat]

Originally Posted by toady42

See if this Reddit post helps and the response from ca_falla:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/commen...t=share_button

Thank you for the tip. I did, however, fix it before I saw your post, so I don't know whether that would also have done it.

There is, though, a difference here in the two scenarios, mine and what ca_falla is discussing. He's claiming actual installed books, whereas what I was seeing was only series and authors.

Anyway, moot point now. I do wonder, though, why Kobo would load those.

[Hasdrubal_Lector]

I tried the Redditor's suggested method just to see if there were any ghost books on my Clara BW. Yes, there were 11 ghost books, all listed under title, author, date, size and collections. Size was 0 bytes in all cases. Most amusing. And now removed via Calibre. Is it the same set of authors on every Clara BW?

I did this for my Libra 2 and there are 14 ghost books on it. Different books than those on the Clara BW, except the Pride and Prejudice audiobook. The dates are all after I bought the Libra 2. Most curious of all is the audiobook, "Return to Breakneck Island" by Tom Ryan which is from 05 Oct 2026, one day before the expected release date of the book. My Libra 2 apparently time travels. Screenshot attached.

The firmware update 4.38.23697 also changed my affiliate.conf file. I suspect that it is the source of some of the ghost books. I wonder what other sneakiness it got up to?