epub covers not loading on a Kobo Touch

[Blas]

Originally Posted by davidfor

To turn the option on, while the device is connected, right-click on the device button and select "Configure this device". The configuration dialog will open. Select the "Collections, covers & uploads" tab. In the middle, select the "Upload covers" and then the other options you like the look of. Save the changes and restart calibre. After this, when you send a book to a Kobo device, the cover will be generated by the driver and put onto the device. I think this will probably solve the problem you are seeing.

Wow I didn't know about that thx a lot! I just activated it. But to send the book is the same way right? At least I send like: Right click on the book > send to device > send to storage card A.

There has been some discussion about the best card to use in the Kobo forums. I think it comes down to quality of the card more than the class.


I don't have a good answer to that. I spend far to much time editing my books to be how I want. I use the calibre editor, but I could also use Sigil. Both are good epub editors and both have functions to check for errors and help you fix them. But, in most cases this is overkill.

A simpler method is to do an epub-to-epub conversion. This will nearly always produce a book the Kobo devices will handle with no problems. Some people will say not to do this as it messes with the internals of books in ways they don't like. But, unless you start editing the books, that doesn't really matter. The conversion can change the look of a book, and there are options to change some things. But, you can also use this to make the books how you like. For example, if you want a gap between the paragraphs instead of an indent at the start, you can do this on the "Look & feel" page of the conversion.

My suggestion is to only do something if there seems to be a problem. If the book isn't imported, then you can either do the conversion or open it in the editor and run the check function (press the button that looks like a bug). This give some help on fixing any problems or and there is an option to automatically fix some.

I never had any problem with my sdCard so I think it is good hahaha. About fixing books...well I know that I had some books that wouldn't send at all to my kobo cuz of some error, Calibre would stop sending books and an exclamation alert would show up. So I would try to change or just delete the file. But all the books that I'm sending now didn't have any of these erros. However if you check with the Quality Check extension it will show a lot of books with missing jackets and some other things.


Btw I managed to solve the problem of the loading covers.
I removed all the books that I thought that had any issue. Then I installed Kepub Output extension. Then I selected that option to send where you can choose what format you wanna send, which I selected Kepub. It converted and then sent all the files. It didn't freeze to import the content and all the book covers are loading now normally. I will try to patch the firmware now and see if it will keep like that.

[EDIT] I always forget to say something my bad. Whenever I send a big amount of books, like 10 or 15 books. I use the "Compress device Database" option to 'optimize' it. Could it be the problem for the loading covers?