[Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver

[seanbob]

Originally Posted by jgoguen

Can you post a scrambled ePub, a scrambled copy of the converted KePub, and the calibre debug log containing only converting the book?

Sure thing. Here are the scrambled files. Let me know if you need anything else and I'd be happy to help.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by seanbob

Sure thing. Here are the scrambled files. Let me know if you need anything else and I'd be happy to help.

The fix I mentioned above fixes those.

[jgoguen]

Version 3.2.12 up with davidfor's fix for closing </p> tags in bad places

[seanbob]

Originally Posted by davidfor

The fix I mentioned above fixes those.

Indeed it did. Everything looks great after updating to the latest version.

Thank you again to everyone for your fantastic work on this!

[jxall]

Originally Posted by jgoguen

Version 3.2.12 up with davidfor's fix for closing </p> tags in bad places

3.2.12 fixed the problem for me!

Many many thanks, davidfor and jgoguen

[NiLuJe]

@davidfor: To be fair, given my recent experience with porting a plugin to Python 3 without breaking all the things in the process, the .decode() call in there should have been a red flag on my end when I did the switch to Polyglot, too .

Thanks for double-checking!

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

@davidfor: To be fair, given my recent experience with porting a plugin to Python 3 without breaking all the things in the process, the .decode() call in there should have been a red flag on my end when I did the switch to Polyglot, too .

The decode() call was what had me. I know it was wrong, but, I coudn't work out why

[thatbend]

Works for me as well. Thank you!

[mirage]

Originally Posted by thatbend

Works for me as well. Thank you!

Me, too. My thanks, as well.

[bongoman]

I'm new to Kobo and am working with this plugin to convert books to kepub as they get sent to the device.

If I send an ePub, it seems to end up in the device as a kepub - that is, it is listed as a "Kobo epub" on the Kobo.

If I send a mobi however, it gets sent as a mobi and no conversion to kepub seems to take place.

In the plugin configuration, I have EPUB, azw, azw3 and mobi checked as formats to send.

I suspect I'm overlooking something obvious here.

[JSWolf]

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[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by bongoman

I'm new to Kobo and am working with this plugin to convert books to kepub as they get sent to the device.

If I send an ePub, it seems to end up in the device as a kepub - that is, it is listed as a "Kobo epub" on the Kobo.

If I send a mobi however, it gets sent as a mobi and no conversion to kepub seems to take place.

In the plugin configuration, I have EPUB, azw, azw3 and mobi checked as formats to send.

I suspect I'm overlooking something obvious here.

To the best of my knowledge KoboTouchExtended has never supported on-the-fly conversion to kepub for any format other than epub.

Kobo doesn't support azw, azw3 format at all. It supports some mobis (pretty badly), but not all.

To see the Kobo at its best, my advice would be to convert any Kindle format (mobi/azw/azw3/kfx) books to epub in your calibre library before attempting to send to Kobo.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

To the best of my knowledge KoboTouchExtended has never supported on-the-fly conversion to kepub for any format other than epub.

Kobo doesn't support azw, azw3 format at all. It supports some mobis (pretty badly), but not all.

To see the Kobo at its best, my advice would be to convert any Kindle format (mobi/azw/azw3/kfx) books to epub in your calibre library before attempting to send to Kobo.

Strictly, it doesn't. But, the work it does is after the conversion that calibre does if there is no suitable format. That means that if you don't have a format in is in the formats selected in the driver, it will convert to the first format in the list, and then send. For Kobo devices, it will be either kepub (via conversion, not the driver) or epub. If it gets converted to epub, the driver will transformed it to kepub during the send.

But, MOBI's are supported on the device, and selected in the driver. In that case, the MOBI will be sent unchanged.

So basically, this is working as designed.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Strictly, it doesn't. But, the work it does is after the conversion that calibre does if there is no suitable format. That means that if you don't have a format in is in the formats selected in the driver, it will convert to the first format in the list, and then send. For Kobo devices, it will be either kepub (via conversion, not the driver) or epub. If it gets converted to epub, the driver will transformed it to kepub during the send.

I had considered the idea of letting the auto-full-conversion happen on-the-fly, but did wonder how much that would slow down the send-to-device process, especially if you intend to send the same book to multiple Kobos?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

I had considered the idea of letting the auto-full-conversion happen on-the-fly, but wondered how much that would slow down the send-to-device process, especially if you intend to send the same book to multiple Kobos.

If calibre needs to do a conversion, it is done before the send. The result is added to the library and then sent.