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Old 04-08-2014, 05:35 PM   #346
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A plugboard "modifies" some of the data on a book as it is being sent to the device. For instance, in the first post of this thread I give an example of how to include series info. in the title of the book. Look for the section "Changing Book Titles to include Series Info".

I personally use the third option listed there, and modify the book's title to <First Letter of Each word in Series> - <Number> - <Title> type
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{series:re(([^\s])[^\s]+(\s|$),\1)}{series_index:0>2s| - | - }{title}
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My problem is I can't get the plugin to work to put the books in all my collections in the right order. It's probably something simple that I need to do, but at the moment I don't know what I'm doing wrong...
Keep hearing about plugboards, but I don't actually know what that is...
The steps I take to order my series shelves.
type ondevice:true n the search bar.
Hit CTL A to select them all.
Choose order series shelves from the Kobo Utilities menu.

Probably you are doing this already

Seemed to work fine although I opened a new book and the sleeping cover displayed is from another book and the first (large)cover on the home screen is from a third book. Nothing to do with the utilities plugin I am sure as the book I opened after disconnecting is not in the recently read list where it would normally be.

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Old 04-08-2014, 09:24 PM   #348
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Nothing was displayed when I ran the function. Am I meant to select all the books that are on the device? All the collections on the device have the same name as those in Calibre.
If nothing was displayed in the list, that means you don't have any collections that match the series names for books on the device.

For example, if you have the Harry Potter books, they should have "Harry Potter" displayed as the series name in the library lists. The series number should also be displayed. Then you should also a collection called "Harry Potter". And this collection should contain all the books with series name "Harry Potter".

When you run the "Order series shelves", it should have an entry for "Harry Potter" with the number of books. When you press OK, the database will be updated.

Then disconnect the device and go to the "Harry Potter" collection. For the sort order, select "Date Added". The books should be in series order.
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The names of the series in Calibre are exactly the same as the collections on the Kobo (set up using bookshelves on Calibre).
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IN that case, I don't know what is happening, and I need to see a debug log. To do this:

- Start calibre without the device connected.
- Right click on the Preferences button and select "Restart in debug mode"
- Calibre will close and restart.
- A message about being in debug mode and the log will be displayed. Dismiss this.
- Connect your Touch and wait for calibre to finish the jobs to fetch the book details.
- Run the "Order series shelf" function.
- Close calibre.

When calibre has closed, it will display the debug log. I need that. Post it here, or put it somewhere that I can download it. Or, i can give you an email address to send it to. When I have it, I can try and see what is going wrong.
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Just to let you know why I haven't done as you requested. Up until Kobo asked me do a factory reset on my Kobo, just about everything was fine. The only thing I had noticed was that the home page told me I had finished 3 books when I had actually only read 2.
If I had known the problems I was going to have, I would never have followed their instructions to reset it.
Anyway with all the problems I was having, I eventually followed the instructions on the Kobo website and started transferring my books via Adobe Digital Editions. Of course it meant I had to set up the collections on my Kobo Touch. Apart from the fact my collections were not in alphabetical order (although they had been before I did the factory reset), everything was fine, if a bit time consuming.
I then set up an Incident Report with Kobo Customer Care regarding the ordering of the collections. I had sent them all the information regarding my Touch and they have just got back to me. This was their reply-

We thank you for that response. We have attempted all trouble shooting steps and the issue has not been resolved. In light of this fact we can replace the device for you.

Please let us know your response.
Obviously, it suits me to get a replacement, which I have advised them of.
Just waiting for a reply.

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Old 04-25-2014, 02:42 AM   #352
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I have just bought a Kobo Aura HD and am trying to configure it, As far as I can see I have followed PeterT's instructions but I cannot see any shelves at all on the Kobo. I created a collection called fiction and I can see that, but no shelves.
I have installed both Kobo plugins and have configured them according to PeterT (I think) and created a column called My Shelves in Calibre which I can see.

Also, do I have to use Kobo desktop? I do not want to purchase books from Kobo I have heaps of epubs already. How do I delete the Kobo desktop?
Thankyou for any help.
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Hello Tan, now shelves are called collections
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I have just bought a Kobo Aura HD and am trying to configure it, As far as I can see I have followed PeterT's instructions but I cannot see any shelves at all on the Kobo. I created a collection called fiction and I can see that, but no shelves.
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As samhy said, shelves are now collections. Kobo renamed them a couple of firmware versions ago. I haven't gotten around to changing the calibre plugin, plus I prefer shelf/shelves
I have installed both Kobo plugins and have configured them according to PeterT (I think) and created a column called My Shelves in Calibre which I can see.
The most common configuration missed is not setting "Metadata management" to automatic. This is on the "Sending books to devices" page of the calibre preferences.

If you have set this, please run calibre in debug mode. This is done by right clicking on the preferences button and selecting "Restart in debug mode". Then connect the Aura HD, wait for calibre to do its stuff and close calibre. Then post or send me the debug log.
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Also, do I have to use Kobo desktop? I do not want to purchase books from Kobo I have heaps of epubs already. How do I delete the Kobo desktop?
You don't need it. Even if you buy books from Kobo, you can download them via WiFi to the device.
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Thanks Davidfor, I did set metadata management to auto. Here is the debug log:
calibre Debug log
calibre 1.33 isfrozen: True is64bit: False
Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601')
Python 2.7.5
Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Starting up...
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::action.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::dialogs.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboUtilites::action.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.8 No Kobo Touch, Glo or Mini appears to be connected
DEBUG: 0.8 rebuild_menus - self.supports_ratings=False
Started up in 94.53 seconds with 937 books
Job: 1 Get device information started
DeviceJob: 1 Get device information done, calling callback
DeviceJob: 1 Get device information callback returned
Job: 2 Get list of books on device started
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboTouch:books - oncard='None'
DEBUG: 0.0 KoboTouch:books - oncard='None', prefix='G:\'
DEBUG: 0.0 Kobo device: Kobo Aura HD
DEBUG: 0.0 Version of driver: (2, 2, 14) Has kepubs: True
DEBUG: 0.0 Version of firmware: (3, 2, 0) Has kepubs: True
DEBUG: 0.0 Firmware supports cover image tree: True
DEBUG: 0.1 KoboTouch:books - opts.extra_customization= [u'', False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, u'', True, False, False, False, False, False, False, u'', False]
DEBUG: 0.1 KoboTouch:books - prefs['manage_device_metadata']= on_connect
DEBUG: 0.1 KoboTouch:books - set_debugging_title to ''
DEBUG: 0.1 KoboTouch:books - length bl=0
DEBUG: 0.2 KoboTouch:books - length bl after sync=9
DEBUG: 0.2 KoboTouch:books - reading device database
DEBUG: 0.2 Database Version=96
DEBUG: 0.2 KoboTouch:books - shelf list: [u'Fiction']
DEBUG: 0.3 KoboTouch:books - query= SELECT Title, Attribution, DateCreated, ContentID, MimeType, ContentType, ImageID, ReadStatus, ___ExpirationStatus, FavouritesIndex, Accessibility, IsDownloaded, Series, SeriesNumber, ___UserID, ExternalId FROM content where BookID is Null and ((Accessibility = -1 and IsDownloaded in ('true', 1 )) or (Accessibility in (1,2) and IsDownloaded in ('true', 1)) ) and not ((___ExpirationStatus=3 or ___ExpirationStatus is Null) and ContentType = 6) AND (externalId IS NULL OR externalId = '') AND contentId NOT LIKE 'file:///mnt/sd/%'
DEBUG: 0.3 KoboTouch:books - looping on database - row=9
DEBUG: 0.3 KoboTouch:books - title='' authors= Kobo Inc.
DEBUG: 0.3 KoboTouch:books - row= (u'', u'Kobo Inc.', None, u'file:///usr/local/Kobo/help/10UserGuide-Legal.kepub.epub', u'application/x-kobo-epub+zip', u'6', None, 0, 0, -1, 1, 1, None, None, u'', None)
DEBUG: 0.5 KoboTouch:books - looping on database - row=10
DEBUG: 0.5 KoboTouch:books - title='' authors= Kobo Inc.
DEBUG: 0.5 KoboTouch:books - row= (u'', u'Kobo Inc.', None, u'file:///usr/local/Kobo/help/09UserGuide-Contacting_FNAC.kepub.epub', u'application/x-kobo-epub+zip', u'6', None, 0, 0, -1, 1, 1, None, None, u'', None)
DEBUG: 0.7 KoboTouch:books - automatically managing metadata
DEBUG: 0.7 KoboTouch:books - about to sync_booklists
DEBUG: 0.7 USBMS: starting sync_booklists
Job: 1 Get device information finished
No details available.
DEBUG: 1.0 USBMS: finished sync_booklists
DEBUG: 1.0 KoboTouch:books - have done sync_booklists
DEBUG: 1.0 KoboTouch:books - end - oncard='None'
DEBUG: 1.0 KoboTouch:books - oncard='carda'
DEBUG: 1.0 KoboTouch:books - Asked to process 'carda', but do not have one!
DEBUG: 1.0 KoboTouch:books - oncard='cardb'
DEBUG: 1.0 KoboTouch:books - Asked to process 'cardb', but do not have one!
DeviceJob: 2 Get list of books on device done, calling callback
DeviceJob: metadata_downloaded: Starting set_books_in_library
DeviceJob: set_books_in_library: books to process= 9
DeviceJob: set_books_in_library finished: time= 0.00999999046326
DeviceJob: metadata_downloaded: updating views
DeviceJob: metadata_downloaded: syncing
DeviceJob: metadata_downloaded: refreshing ondevice
DeviceJob: metadata_downloaded: sending metadata_available signal
DEBUG: 223.9 KoboUtilites:_on_device_metadata_available - Metadata available: {'main': {u'device_store_uuid': u'6ea87eb7-3b3e-447d-9c91-e49c5893162b', u'location_code': 'main', u'device_name': u'Kobo Aura HD', u'calibre_version': u'1.33.0', u'prefix': 'G:/', u'last_library_uuid': u'd7a7eee8-eb0f-4aed-b3d5-a2830ae7ab20', u'date_last_connected': u'2014-04-25T09:43:47.312000+00:00'}}
DEBUG: 223.9 Have a Kobo device connected connected
DEBUG: 223.9 Have a Kobo device connected connected
DEBUG: 223.9 rebuild_menus - self.supports_ratings=True
DeviceJob: 2 Get list of books on device callback returned
Job: 3 Send metadata to device started
DEBUG: 1.3 KOBO:sync_booklists - start
DEBUG: 1.3 KoboTouch:update_device_database_collections - oncard='main'
DEBUG: 1.4 KoboTouch:update_device_database_collections - set_debugging_title to ''
DEBUG: 1.4 KoboTouch:update_device_database_collections - Finished
DEBUG: 1.4 USBMS: starting sync_booklists
DEBUG: 1.4 USBMS: finished sync_booklists
DEBUG: 1.4 KOBO:sync_booklists - end
DeviceJob: 3 Send metadata to device done, calling callback
DeviceJob: 3 Send metadata to device callback returned
Job: 3 Send metadata to device finished
No details available.
Job: 2 Get list of books on device finished
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DEBUG: 0.1 KoboTouch:books - opts.extra_customization= [u'', False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, u'', True, False, False, False, False, False, False, u'', False]
That says you haven't configured the driver. You need to open the KoboTouch driver configuration and at least set the shelf name field. This needs to have the name of the column that is to be used to create the shelves/collections. It can have more than one column name if they are separated by commas.

And to uninstall the Kobo desktop, the log says you are using Windows. Uninstall it from the Control Panel as you would any Windows application.
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Hello all. I’m a new Kobo Aura HD owner (just got it today) with a question.

First let me say that all my books (epub format DRM free) are in calibre ver. 1.34.0. I have followed Peter’s instructions at the beginning of the thread regarding Driver / calibre Configuration, Configuring calibre's Metadata Management options, and Changing Book Titles to include Series Info.

I want to have all my books on an sd card rather than on the Kobo’s internal memory.

My question deals with how to save the books onto the sd card using calibre. Should I do so with the sd card in the Kobo? Or should I save books to the sd card via my card reader and then place the sd card into the Kobo? Or does it really make a difference?

Thanks in advance.
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On my glo, I save to my sd card with the card in the reader and the reader connected. It shows up an memory B or something similar
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