Free Books Updated

[plib]

Originally Posted by b_budhuu88

Shoot, the same update/sync caused my Kobo Touch to corrupt every free ebook I had in the device. Used Calibre to delete the corrupt ebooks but it seems like it also deleted from Kobo library as well and couldn't find them in my account. So I've lost all the ebooks I had and can't really remember what titles I had. A major headache, should not have updated if I knew the consequence. Not impressed with Kobo servers...

I know it's no help now but the first thing I do with any book I get, freebie or not, is import into Calibre and remove the DRM, and my Calibre database is backed up nightly to a NAS. Probably not a bad routine to adopt in future.

I don't think it's a good idea to be dependent on anyone's cloud.

[soulfuldog]

Originally Posted by plib

I don't think it's a good idea to be dependent on anyone's cloud.

+1 to that.

[LibraryCin]

Thanks for this thread. I just discovered this problem with my older free ebooks. Only the first ones I downloaded - more recent ones seem fine. Luckily, I only have about 5 or 6 of them.

So, just to confirm. What I should do now is delete those corrupted free books from my Kobo and my desktop software (and someone also said to delete from my Kobo Library? On the Kobo site?). Or, is deleting them from my Kobo and from the desktop enough?

Another quick question which I was going to get around to asking eventually, anyway. How do I delete books from my Kobo? I can see in the desktop that I just need to right click and "Remove this book". If I do that, will those books be removed from my Kobo on my next sync? Or do I separately delete them from my Kobo somehow?

Thanks so much!

[Xennex1170]

Originally Posted by LibraryCin

Thanks for this thread. I just discovered this problem with my older free ebooks. Only the first ones I downloaded - more recent ones seem fine. Luckily, I only have about 5 or 6 of them.

So, just to confirm. What I should do now is delete those corrupted free books from my Kobo and my desktop software (and someone also said to delete from my Kobo Library? On the Kobo site?). Or, is deleting them from my Kobo and from the desktop enough?

Another quick question which I was going to get around to asking eventually, anyway. How do I delete books from my Kobo? I can see in the desktop that I just need to right click and "Remove this book". If I do that, will those books be removed from my Kobo on my next sync? Or do I separately delete them from my Kobo somehow?

Thanks so much!

Yes, if the ebook is downloaded from Kobo and not sideloaded via the SD card the delete command will remove the ebook from your device. 'Delete' will 'remove' ebooks temporarily from KT memory but restore them the next time your KT enters 'processing' mode. You have to delete ebooks on SD cards via the file manager on your PC/Mac.

Once you sync with either the Desktop or Kobo.com via wifi your deletions will be reflected in your account at kobo.com as well as the KT and desktop(only if syncing via desktop, otherwise when desktop itself syncs with kobo.com next).