Kobo Wifi-Can NOT see books on SD Card

[dioioib]

Originally Posted by filmo

How did you reformat your sd cards? I have used sd association formatter in full over write mode getting good results. Other other formatting modes don't seem to work for kobo use. If you again have invisible book problem after loading new books it is caused by one of the books you just loaded. Past threads have explained how to fix such problem books. I just delete the problem book and look for the book from another source.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

I used that exact same program.

[dioioib]

Originally Posted by williams_john

Hello,
Well whould you like to share with us,
Form where you got all these books?
I just know about Kobo reader, all others are new for me.

I get my PDF's from online parts suppliers, TI, Freescale, Microchip, Maxim, Panasonic, etc... I have been downloading datasheets for well over 6 years. I have a lot of files and I mean a lot. I am not going to upload my files because they are too large to send to start. And the device should at least indicate to me what files will not load in an error log and bypass that file. Mark it in your database even as unreadable. Crippling the device because of one bad ebook or pdf is ridiculous. I have over 16gb of datasheets, and technical briefs that use to work perfectly fine. I would suspect Kobo has been messing around with something in their file handling / DRM mechanism which is causing problems if they are constantly asking users to send in files.

It makes no sense why continuity of reading material was not maintained across upgraded versions of firmware.

[filmo]

Kobo wifi has slow processor and 5 way switch makes reading PDF books and documents very slow and clumsy. Kobo Touch is much better for many books but some really need larger screen and color.

When I was having the same problem your experiencing I would only load 10 book at once then force kobo to update library so it was easy to find book causing the problem.

These programs might help you find what is wrong with a epub and fix it so will work again on your kobo.
epubfixer http://code.google.com/p/epubfixer/

epubcheck http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/

[dioioib]

Originally Posted by filmo

Kobo wifi has slow processor and 5 way switch makes reading PDF books and documents very slow and clumsy. Kobo Touch is much better for many books but some really need larger screen and color.

When I was having the same problem your experiencing I would only load 10 book at once then force kobo to update library so it was easy to find book causing the problem.

These programs might help you find what is wrong with a epub and fix it so will work again on your kobo.
epubfixer http://code.google.com/p/epubfixer/

epubcheck http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/

My touch is in for repair. I've been waiting for its return. I was having similar problems with it to.

I just read something about file names with apostrophes causing problems. I did attempt to run the epubfixer but it crashed partway through. Either I am the unluckiest guy in the world or I am having some really bad luck with these things.

[jonroywill]

what type of card(s) are you using and is it locked. Wifi model can take 32GB max in HC what did you use to re-format. i note KoBo are on the case. So a Full answer should not be long in coming

[semi-old]

The 256mg & 1 GB SC Cards are Scan Disk & the 8gb is HP. (I tried more than one size card just in case that was the problem but it is not.)
Yes, I have used the https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/ and used the full overwrite mode.
No, the cards are NOT locked.
I have erased all books and reformatted cards more than once, putting just 1 ePub book on a card that I know can be opened on the reader, if put directly on to the reader.

[semi-old]

FIXED!! Thanks to Christine Lewis of the Kobo Team!!!

Solution: Complete Factory Reset. (the one thing I was afraid to do, but it worked)

I want to thank everyone for all the suggestions, time and effort.