[Device Plugin] iOS reader applications - Page 20

eschwartz · 11-21-2014, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottUrman

New user of the plugin here. I'm using Calibre 2.11 (64 bit windows), version 1.4.4 of the plugin. I've followed (I think) the initial setup instructions, but when I plug my iPad2 into my computer when running calibre (or when starting calibre with it plugged in), nothing happens. I'm expecting a 'Device' button to appear on the toolbar, like when I connect to iTunes. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

Very possibly... what have you done so far?

Sorry, my crystal ball is offline.

ScottUrman · 11-21-2014, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Very possibly... what have you done so far?

Sorry, my crystal ball is offline.

I installed 1.4.4 from the plugin finder window, and enabled debugging from the 'device interface plugins' window. I can click on 'Device Diagnostics' when my ipad is plugged in via usb, but I then get the following (copied from the clipboard)

calibre, version 2.11.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'iOSReaderApp' object has no attribute 'load_time'

calibre 2.11 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: iOS reader applications
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.config", line 561, in device_diagnostics
File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.config", line 319, in _add_load_time
AttributeError: 'iOSReaderApp' object has no attribute 'load_time'

chilady1 · 11-21-2014, 07:10 PM

I am happy to report that iOS reader plug-in is working however, I have noticed a difference in the behavior of this plug-in.

1. When connecting - it takes a very long time to analyze the books on my iPad to determine which books are on the iPad.
2. After sending a book(s) to the iPad, when I choose the next series of books to send to my iPad - the plug in is going through analyzing the books process again.

This is strange as I don't ever remember it doing this before. Usually it will analyze the books on the device ONCE and that's it.

Any thoughts on this?

Nancybny · 11-21-2014, 11:30 PM

What am I doing wrong or not doing??? I've been faithfully following this thread (thank you to all you geniuses out there that have been working on this) and was so excited to see that people were successfully connecting Marvin to Calibre again... for some reason, it's not happening for me. I've upgraded to the latest version of Calibre, uninstalled and re-installed the Marvin and IOs pluggins and updated the Marvin app... I'm using an iPad mini with a macbook pro running OSx 10.8.5 Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!!

ShellShock · 11-22-2014, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottUrman

I installed 1.4.4 from the plugin finder window, and enabled debugging from the 'device interface plugins' window. I can click on 'Device Diagnostics' when my ipad is plugged in via usb, but I then get the following (copied from the clipboard)

calibre, version 2.11.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'iOSReaderApp' object has no attribute 'load_time'

calibre 2.11 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: iOS reader applications
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.config", line 561, in device_diagnostics
File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.config", line 319, in _add_load_time
AttributeError: 'iOSReaderApp' object has no attribute 'load_time'

I suspect you have a got a old version of the IOSRA plugin somewhere that Calibre is picking up. Exit Calibre. In Explorer, go to %APPDATA%\calibre\plugins and delete Marvin XD.* and iOS reader applications.* files, and the Marvin_XD_resources directory. Run Calibre and install the plugins again.

ShellShock · 11-22-2014, 05:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nancybny

What am I doing wrong or not doing??? I've been faithfully following this thread (thank you to all you geniuses out there that have been working on this) and was so excited to see that people were successfully connecting Marvin to Calibre again... for some reason, it's not happening for me. I've upgraded to the latest version of Calibre, uninstalled and re-installed the Marvin and IOs pluggins and updated the Marvin app... I'm using an iPad mini with a macbook pro running OSx 10.8.5 Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!!

Have you followed the trouble shooting advice in the first post of this thread?

ScottUrman · 11-22-2014, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShellShock

I suspect you have a got a old version of the IOSRA plugin somewhere that Calibre is picking up. Exit Calibre. In Explorer, go to %APPDATA%\calibre\plugins and delete Marvin XD.* and iOS reader applications.* files, and the Marvin_XD_resources directory. Run Calibre and install the plugins again.

Man, this is frustrating, and thanks for your help. I did that, but I'm still seeing the same behavior. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling calibre (although when I restarted it, it did not run the welcome wizard, hm). Then I reinstalled the plugin and tried the setup steps again referenced in the first page of this thread, still no good. device diagnostics shows the same errors.

I am trying to use iBooks, btw. I confirmed that I can successfully add a book to iTunes when I choose 'connect to iTunes', but I'm really hoping to use this plugin to skip iTunes altogether.

The version of the iOS reader applications.zip file in %APPDATA%\calibre\plugins looks the same as the one downloaded from the first page of this thread as well.

ShellShock · 11-22-2014, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottUrman

I am trying to use iBooks, btw. I confirmed that I can successfully add a book to iTunes when I choose 'connect to iTunes', but I'm really hoping to use this plugin to skip iTunes altogether..

Ah right, I use Marvin. If I switch to iBooks, and do the Device Diagnostics, I get the same error as you. Looks like a bug in the IOSRA plugin. I don't think many people use it with iBooks so support is likely to be minimal, especially as IOS itself changes. I can recommend Marvin as a great epub reader.

ScottUrman · 11-22-2014, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShellShock

Ah right, I use Marvin. If I switch to iBooks, and do the Device Diagnostics, I get the same error as you. Looks like a bug in the IOSRA plugin. I don't think many people use it with iBooks so support is likely to be minimal, especially as IOS itself changes. I can recommend Marvin as a great epub reader.

Guess I should check out Marvin then.

Although from the description it can't open DRM'ed epubs, right? Thanks for your help.

ShellShock · 11-22-2014, 12:39 PM

There seems to be another bug in the Calibre/IOSRA interface: start Calibre without any idevice connected, and I get the error "Marvin XD requires the IOS reader application plugin to be installed".

Debug log:

Spoiler:

From the IOSRA code, the libimobiledevice library has reported that one idevice is connected (which it is not), and then IOSRA is falling over when it tries to mount the idevice.

Does anyone else get this error?

This is something I saw before when porting the libimobiledevice library from Linux to Windows--without any idevices connected, it still reported one device, with a product_id == 0. If I connect my IPad, I get two reported, a "dummy" one (product_id == 0) and a real one (product_id is not 0).

I fixed this to ignore all idevices with product_id == 0 unless it is the only detected idevice. This is the code that is currently in the Windows build of Calibre 2.11.

I am now considering that the code should always ignore any idevice with a product_id == 0, even if it is the only detected idevice. I have just tried this change and the "Marvin XD requires the IOS reader application plugin to be installed" bug has disappeared.

It may be better to fix this bug in the python code, and not the C code, because the python code is shared between Linux and Windows, whereas the C code is not.

Nancybny · 11-22-2014, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShellShock

Have you followed the trouble shooting advice in the first post of this thread?

Hi - I thought I went through all the trouble shooting advice - I'm soooooo NOT a computer genius - which is why I was loving the Calibre/Marvin thing - everything worked so beautifully without me having to know that much. Now I'm just frustrated that whatever I try doesn't work and I don't have the skill set to do any more. Thanks for all the work you all put into this - I need the real dummies version

ScottUrman · 11-22-2014, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottUrman

Guess I should check out Marvin then.

Although from the description it can't open DRM'ed epubs, right? Thanks for your help.

Well, now device diagnostics is greyed out, it seems that calibre is not recognizing my iPad at all. I saw this before, but it magically went away. Here's the output of the 'Debug Device Dectection' from the Miscellaneous preference:

Quote:

calibre 2.11 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.8
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Successfully initialized third party plugins: iOS reader applications
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid1c2d&rev0004',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid1c26&rev0004',
u'usb\\vid_046d&pid_c043&rev_2710',
u'usb\\vid_05ac&pid_12a2&rev_0220',
u'usb\\vid_05ac&pid_12a2&rev_0220&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_5801&rev_0101',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_5801&rev_0101&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_0a5c&pid_5801&rev_0101&mi_01',
u'usb\\vid_413c&pid_8187&rev_0517',
u'usb\\vid_8087&pid_0024&rev_0000',
u'usb\\vid_8087&pid_0024&rev_0000']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\scanner.py", line 85, in __call__
DriveError: No removable drives found
Drives detected:

No disabled plugins
Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
List of WPD PNP ids:
[u'\\\\?\\usb#vid_05ac&pid_12a2&mi_00#0#{6ac27878-a6fa-4155-ba85-f98f491d4f33}']
MTP device: \\?\usb#vid_05ac&pid_12a2&mi_00#0#{6ac27878-a6fa-4155-ba85-f98f491d4f33}
{'device_version': u'8.1.1',
'friendly_name': u'Apple iPad',
'has_bulk_properties': True,
'has_storage': True,
'manufacturer_name': u'Apple Inc.',
'model_name': u'Apple iPad',
'protocol': u'MTP: 1.00',
'serial_number': u'DLXFH6LKDFJ2',
'storage': [{'capacity': 31943819264L,
'capacity_objects': 0L,
'description': u'Internal Storage',
'filesystem': u'DCF',
'free_objects': 10363L,
'free_space': 15544918016L,
'id': u's10001',
'name': u'Internal Storage',
'rw': True,
'type': u'fixed_ram'}],
'type': 'unknown'}
Not a suitable MTP device, ignoring

No suitable MTP devices found

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_05ac&pid_12a2&rev_0220'

Devices possibly connected: None

ScottUrman · 11-22-2014, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottUrman

Well, now device diagnostics is greyed out, it seems that calibre is not recognizing my iPad at all. I saw this before, but it magically went away.

OK I didn't RTFM. Bad developer, no cookie. I need to open Marvin and tell it to connect to Calibre first. Did that, and now magically it popped up in Calibre as a device and I can copy books over. Yay! Thanks for your help.

ShellShock · 11-23-2014, 04:29 AM

I have just discovered something that may be helpful to some people having problems getting Calibre talking to Marvin using the IOSRA plugin: if you have got more than one idevice (IPad/IPhone) on your wifi network, try powering off all your idevices except for the one you are trying to connect to over the usb cable. It seems the libimobiledevice library may detect idevices that are only connected by wifi and this confuses the IOSRA plugin, which expects that there is only one idevice connected (i.e., via usb). On my wifi network I have an old IPad 1 as well as the IPad mini 2 that I am trying to connect to via usb. If I power off my IPad 1, IOSRA connects fine to the IPad mini 2, but if the IPad 1 is powered up and on the wifi network, then IOSRA fails to initialise, because it detects the IPad 1, but fails to mount it as a usb device (it is not on usb, only wifi).

sdow1 · 11-23-2014, 11:22 AM

I've quite frankly, given up trying to get this to work correctly.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, because I know a lot of people have put a lot of uncompensated man-hours into developing this (something that I certainly don't have the skill to do), but between calibre regularly auto-uninstalling the IOSRA plugin (and only then periodically not giving me an error message when I try to re-install it), not finding my iPad when it's the only device connected, and having to come here to see if there's been some new update or issue posted to explain what's going on, uninstall and reinstall and resync plugins, apps, etc. over and over again in the hopes of making it all work, it's just not worth the time I'm spending to get it to work on my machine.

Since I keep my entire calibre library in dropbox anyway, I've basically just gone another route and imported all of my books using the "import from dropbox" function in Marvin instead. I'll have to manually add new books this way as I add new books to calibre, but given the amount of time I was spending trying to get the theoretically easier "sync" function to work, and that I only add one or two books a week at most, this will actually take less time, for me at least. It's a shame that I can't use calibre as the interface to manage everything, but I just don't have the time or energy to deal with this anymore, at least until a real solution is found.

11-22-2014, 12:39 PM	#295
ShellShock Wizard Posts: 1,178 Karma: 2431850 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: IPad Mini 2 Retina	There seems to be another bug in the Calibre/IOSRA interface: start Calibre without any idevice connected, and I get the error "Marvin XD requires the IOS reader application plugin to be installed". Debug log: Spoiler: calibre Debug log calibre 2.11 [64bit] isfrozen: True is64bit: True Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE') ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.8 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') DEBUG: 0.0 iOSReaderApp:initialize(v1.4.4) DEBUG: 0.0 iOSReaderApp:compile_ui() DEBUG: 0.0 iOSReaderApp:_init_prefs(prefs created under v1.4.4) DEBUG: 0.0 debug_libimobiledevice: True DEBUG: 0.0 debug_plugin: True DEBUG: 0.0 development_mode: False DEBUG: 0.0 device_booklist_cache_limit: 10 DEBUG: 0.0 device_booklist_caching: False DEBUG: 0.0 kindle_enabled_formats: [u'MOBI', u'PDF'] DEBUG: 0.0 kindle_supported_formats: [u'MOBI', u'PDF'] DEBUG: 0.0 marvin_edit_collections_cb: True DEBUG: 0.0 marvin_protect_rb: False DEBUG: 0.0 marvin_replace_rb: True DEBUG: 0.0 marvin_update_rb: False DEBUG: 0.0 plugin_diagnostics: True DEBUG: 0.0 preferred_reader_app: u'Marvin' DEBUG: 0.0 libiMobileDevice:__init__() DEBUG: 0.0 libiMobileDevice:load_library(Windows) DEBUG: 0.0 libimobiledevice loaded from 'libimobiledevice.dll' DEBUG: 0.0 libplist loaded from 'libplist.dll' DEBUG: 0.0 iOSReaderApp:_get_connected_device_info() DEBUG: 0.0 libiMobileDevice:get_device_list() DEBUG: 0.0 libiMobileDevice:_idevice_get_device_list() DEBUG: 0.0 ['2d52bb816168efbae50a1f5aceee3cca041e207d'] DEBUG: 0.0 libiMobileDevice:connect_idevice() DEBUG: 0.0 libiMobileDevice:_idevice_new() DEBUG: 0.0 conn_type: CONNECTION_USBMUXD DEBUG: 0.0 udid: 2d52bb816168efbae50a1f5aceee3cca041e207d DEBUG: 0.0 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_client_new_with_handsha ke() DEBUG: 2.1 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_get_device_name() DEBUG: 2.3 device_name: Adrian’s iPad DEBUG: 2.3 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_start_service(com.apple .mobile.installation_proxy) DEBUG: 2.6 libiMobileDevice:get_preferences() DEBUG: 2.6 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_get_value() DEBUG: 2.6 libiMobileDevice:disconnect_idevice(Adrian’s iPad) DEBUG: 2.6 device already disconnected DEBUG: 2.6 libiMobileDevice:mount_ios_media_folder() DEBUG: 2.6 libiMobileDevice:_idevice_new() DEBUG: 2.6 conn_type: CONNECTION_USBMUXD DEBUG: 2.6 udid: 2d52bb816168efbae50a1f5aceee3cca041e207d DEBUG: 2.6 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_client_new_with_handsha ke() DEBUG: 3.9 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_start_service(com.apple .afc) DEBUG: 4.2 libiMobileDevice:_afc_client_new() DEBUG: 4.8 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_client_free() DEBUG: 5.1 libiMobileDevice:_afc_get_device_info() DEBUG: 5.2 Model: iPad1,1 DEBUG: 5.2 FSBlockSize: 8192 DEBUG: 5.2 FSFreeBytes: 20351328256 DEBUG: 5.2 FSTotalBytes: 30666899456 DEBUG: 5.2 libiMobileDevice:_afc_client_free() DEBUG: 5.2 libiMobileDevice:_idevice_free() DEBUG: 5.2 mounting 'com.appstafarian.MarvinIP' DEBUG: 5.2 libiMobileDevice:mount_ios_app(com.appstafarian.Ma rvinIP) DEBUG: 5.2 libiMobileDevice:_idevice_new() DEBUG: 5.2 conn_type: CONNECTION_USBMUXD DEBUG: 5.2 udid: 2d52bb816168efbae50a1f5aceee3cca041e207d DEBUG: 5.2 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_client_new_with_handsha ke() DEBUG: 6.5 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_get_device_name() DEBUG: 6.7 device_name: Adrian’s iPad DEBUG: 6.7 libiMobileDevice:_lockdown_start_service(com.apple .mobile.house_arrest) DEBUG: 7.0 libiMobileDevice:_house_arrest_client_new() DEBUG: 7.6 libiMobileDevice:_house_arrest_send_command(comman d=u'VendContainer' appid='com.appstafarian.MarvinIP') DEBUG: 7.6 libiMobileDevice:_house_arrest_get_result() Traceback (most recent call last): File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.__init__", line 1223, in _get_connected_device_info File "site-packages\calibre\devices\idevice\libimobiledevice. py", line 536, in mount_ios_app File "site-packages\calibre\devices\idevice\libimobiledevice. py", line 1269, in _house_arrest_get_result File "site-packages\calibre\devices\idevice\parse_xml.py", line 306, in parse File "site-packages\calibre\devices\idevice\parse_xml.py", line 276, in _parse_using_etree PropertyListParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0 DEBUG: 7.6 iOSReaderApp:_get_connected_device_info(ERROR: PropertyListParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0) Failed to initialize plugin: iOS reader applications (1, 4, 4) Failed to initialize plugin: u'C:\\Users\\Adrian\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\pl ugins\\iOS reader applications.zip' Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 590, in initialize_plugins File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 557, in initialize_plugin InvalidPlugin: Initialisation of plug-in Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 551, in initialize_plugin File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.__init__", line 910, in initialize File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.__init__", line 1239, in _get_connected_device_info InitialConnectionError: Unable to connect to iDevice failed with traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\customize\ui.py", line 551, in initialize_plugin File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.__init__", line 910, in initialize File "calibre_plugins.ios_reader_apps.__init__", line 1239, in _get_connected_device_info InitialConnectionError: Unable to connect to iDevice Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeDRM && Modify ePub && Marvin XD && Open With Starting up... DEBUG: 8.0 MarvinManagerAction:genesis(v1.2.4) DEBUG: 8.0 MarvinManagerAction:init_options() DEBUG: 8.0 AnnotationsDB:connect(db_version: 1) DEBUG: 8.0 MarvinManagerAction:inflate_dialog_resources() DEBUG: 8.0 MarvinManagerAction:compile_ui() DEBUG: 8.5 MarvinManagerAction:rebuild_menus() DEBUG: 14.2 iOSRA plugin not installed Started up in 8.65 seconds with 400 books DEBUG: 18.6 MarvinManagerAction:shutting_down() From the IOSRA code, the libimobiledevice library has reported that one idevice is connected (which it is not), and then IOSRA is falling over when it tries to mount the idevice. Does anyone else get this error? This is something I saw before when porting the libimobiledevice library from Linux to Windows--without any idevices connected, it still reported one device, with a product_id == 0. If I connect my IPad, I get two reported, a "dummy" one (product_id == 0) and a real one (product_id is not 0). I fixed this to ignore all idevices with product_id == 0 unless it is the only detected idevice. This is the code that is currently in the Windows build of Calibre 2.11. I am now considering that the code should always ignore any idevice with a product_id == 0, even if it is the only detected idevice. I have just tried this change and the "Marvin XD requires the IOS reader application plugin to be installed" bug has disappeared. It may be better to fix this bug in the python code, and not the C code, because the python code is shared between Linux and Windows, whereas the C code is not.

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11-21-2014, 07:10 PM	#288
chilady1 I devour books! Posts: 789 Karma: 1285226 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad Air, Kindle 3/Kobo Aura HD, iPhone 6	I am happy to report that iOS reader plug-in is working however, I have noticed a difference in the behavior of this plug-in. 1. When connecting - it takes a very long time to analyze the books on my iPad to determine which books are on the iPad. 2. After sending a book(s) to the iPad, when I choose the next series of books to send to my iPad - the plug in is going through analyzing the books process again. This is strange as I don't ever remember it doing this before. Usually it will analyze the books on the device ONCE and that's it. Any thoughts on this?

11-21-2014, 11:30 PM	#289
Nancybny Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: marvin on ipad	What am I doing wrong or not doing??? I've been faithfully following this thread (thank you to all you geniuses out there that have been working on this) and was so excited to see that people were successfully connecting Marvin to Calibre again... for some reason, it's not happening for me. I've upgraded to the latest version of Calibre, uninstalled and re-installed the Marvin and IOs pluggins and updated the Marvin app... I'm using an iPad mini with a macbook pro running OSx 10.8.5 Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!!

11-23-2014, 04:29 AM	#299
ShellShock Wizard Posts: 1,178 Karma: 2431850 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: IPad Mini 2 Retina	I have just discovered something that may be helpful to some people having problems getting Calibre talking to Marvin using the IOSRA plugin: if you have got more than one idevice (IPad/IPhone) on your wifi network, try powering off all your idevices except for the one you are trying to connect to over the usb cable. It seems the libimobiledevice library may detect idevices that are only connected by wifi and this confuses the IOSRA plugin, which expects that there is only one idevice connected (i.e., via usb). On my wifi network I have an old IPad 1 as well as the IPad mini 2 that I am trying to connect to via usb. If I power off my IPad 1, IOSRA connects fine to the IPad mini 2, but if the IPad 1 is powered up and on the wifi network, then IOSRA fails to initialise, because it detects the IPad 1, but fails to mount it as a usb device (it is not on usb, only wifi).

11-23-2014, 11:22 AM	#300
sdow1 Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: new york city Device: nook, ipad	I've quite frankly, given up trying to get this to work correctly. I don't want to sound ungrateful, because I know a lot of people have put a lot of uncompensated man-hours into developing this (something that I certainly don't have the skill to do), but between calibre regularly auto-uninstalling the IOSRA plugin (and only then periodically not giving me an error message when I try to re-install it), not finding my iPad when it's the only device connected, and having to come here to see if there's been some new update or issue posted to explain what's going on, uninstall and reinstall and resync plugins, apps, etc. over and over again in the hopes of making it all work, it's just not worth the time I'm spending to get it to work on my machine. Since I keep my entire calibre library in dropbox anyway, I've basically just gone another route and imported all of my books using the "import from dropbox" function in Marvin instead. I'll have to manually add new books this way as I add new books to calibre, but given the amount of time I was spending trying to get the theoretically easier "sync" function to work, and that I only add one or two books a week at most, this will actually take less time, for me at least. It's a shame that I can't use calibre as the interface to manage everything, but I just don't have the time or energy to deal with this anymore, at least until a real solution is found.

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