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Old 01-02-2025, 11:16 AM   #16
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I have no idea what you're talking about. I just plugged it in to a USB and looked in my computer folder under devices. Nothing there but my drives. The only thing the USB does is charge the kindle.
Maybe it's a charge-only cable. Have you tried other USB cables?
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Well, I spent the morning doing a fresh install of mint 22 xfce. My mint 20 is expiring in April anyway, so it was time. The software manager had the version 7 of calibre, so I installed that.

My computer still does not see my kindle oasis at all, so of course calibre doesn't, either. I'm totally stumped, and can't find anything anywhere about this problem.
Uninstall that version of calibre. It may very well be broken. Install calibre from the calibre site. NEVER INSTALL CALIBRE FROM A LINUX REPOSITORY AS IT BREAKS IN MOST CASES OR IS AN OLDER VERSION.

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I have no idea what you're talking about. I just plugged it in to a USB and looked in my computer folder under devices. Nothing there but my drives. The only thing the USB does is charge the kindle.
Definitely try different cables. Some cables are charge only, no data wires, and some cables are just flaky. I have a Kobo that is just super picky about which cable I use, and an older Kindle that will disconnect if you just sneeze---probably a worn out connector.

If you can't get the Kindle to show up in your file manager, it will never be seen by Calibre of course.
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Old 01-02-2025, 12:53 PM   #19
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Maybe it's a charge-only cable. Have you tried other USB cables?
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Definitely try different cables. Some cables are charge only, no data wires, and some cables are just flaky. I have a Kobo that is just super picky about which cable I use, and an older Kindle that will disconnect if you just sneeze---probably a worn out connector.

If you can't get the Kindle to show up in your file manager, it will never be seen by Calibre of course.
Now I'm really embarrassed and showing my ignorance. I had no idea there was charge only cables. I'm sure they're cheaper to manufacture, right? Of course they are. It might be all we have. Even the cords that were purchased by my other family members (no one here to tell me now) could just be charge only because that's all they needed and regular usb cords probably cost more money and are not at the dollar store, or wherever they bought them. Time to make a run into town.

In my weak defense, I'll say that it's been over 15 years since I've needed a real usb cord. yikes.

Thanks, and I'll report back later.
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Now I'm really embarrassed and showing my ignorance. I had no idea there was charge only cables. I'm sure they're cheaper to manufacture, right? Of course they are. It might be all we have. Even the cords that were purchased by my other family members (no one here to tell me now) could just be charge only because that's all they needed and regular usb cords probably cost more money and are not at the dollar store, or wherever they bought them. Time to make a run into town.

In my weak defense, I'll say that it's been over 15 years since I've needed a real usb cord. yikes.

Thanks, and I'll report back later.
No need to be embarrassed. The charge-only cables don't look any different and I too learned of their existence here on MR. My current ereaders use USB-C, but I recall wanting to connect one of my old Kindles once and had to try at least 4-5 different cables, before I found one that worked - the rest were charge only.
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I have a multi-plug cable that I have no idea if it's charge only or not. I've never tried it for data. I do have a small USB-A to USB-C cable that's charge only.
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And USB-C cables* can be charge only, 4 wire (i.e. no USB 3.x support, no USB-C Alt DP, no USB-C analog Audio Alt, no USB-C ethernet, no USB-C power signalling but USB1.x & USB 2.x data only) or full USB (USB 3.x, or power & DP video).

It's a horror story. Most USB-C sockets on PCs or gadgets don't support all USB-C features, and even when they do some won't work via a hub.

[* Inc USB-A to USB-C. A USB 3.x on USB-A has an extra 5 connections at the front of computer socket or at back of cable socket and and might have SS or blue colour at connector.]

Qualcomm high power USB (up to 20V & 100W) can use a 4 pin USB-A plug at one end. Other high power schemes need a fully wired USB-C plug or a 9 connection USB-A (rare).

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Well, I spent the morning doing a fresh install of mint 22 xfce. My mint 20 is expiring in April anyway, so it was time. The software manager had the version 7 of calibre, so I installed that.

My computer still does not see my kindle oasis at all, so of course calibre doesn't, either. I'm totally stumped, and can't find anything anywhere about this problem.

Repo versions ARE NOT UP TO DATE for many OS.

7.23 is this weeks version
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Repo versions ARE NOT UP TO DATE for many OS.

7.23 is this weeks version
And they can be improperly built whatever the version.
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In any case, Calibre is not the issue. I went to Wally World and bought a micro to usb cable made to transfer data while charging.

Still nothing. My computer does not see the device. I'm going to have to go to a library and try my oasis on one of their computers. I can't think of anything else.

This oasis is from 2018. Is it possible they made the usb port for just charging?

Edited to add: I tried downloading calibre right from their website using the command for terminal. In the terminal, I received this message:

You are missing the system library libxcb-cursor.so.0

I have no idea what that means or how I get it, so I went to the software manager and downloaded their most recent version. If I can figure out how to install the program from the calibre website, of course I would uninstall the mint version and do it. However, as I stated, Calibre is not the problem.

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I had the 2018 Oasis. Sideloading via USB worked perfectly well on my Windows computer. But it's possible that it's faulty, if you bought it used.
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I had the 2018 Oasis. Sideloading via USB worked perfectly well on my Windows computer. But it's possible that it's faulty, if you bought it used.
My wife got it new in '18. She never tried transferring anything via usb, always wifi downloads. Mostly library, but now we're in Maine and they went to cloudlibrary, so no more kindle reader books. If it's faulty, it's always been so. We just didn't know.
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My wife got it new in '18. She never tried transferring anything via usb, always wifi downloads. Mostly library, but now we're in Maine and they went to cloudlibrary, so no more kindle reader books. If it's faulty, it's always been so. We just didn't know.
More likely that it's some setting on your Linux computer. Can you try with Windows?
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Remember Linux and Macs can only have 1 MTP device mounted at a time.
I don't know when Amazon switched over to MTP on their devices.
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I don't know when Amazon switched over to MTP on their devices.
The 2018 Oasis is certainly not MTP.
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