Kobo Libra Colour Support

[DNSB]

Where are you copying the books to? I would suggest creating a directory in the root of the exposed volumes (call it ebooks or whatever other name you like) and copying the books into there. Avoid directories with a '.' as the first character since those are Linux hidden directories and likely to be skipped. Some other directories such as most of the ones in the .kobo directory will also not be scanned.

Did you see the black screen with the importing books bar running across the screen after you safely eject? If not, your Libra Colour is not seeing the books to import them.

Please note that if your Kobo can not locate the books to import them, the database will not shown them as present when you reconnect. On the send, calibre shows them as on the device since they were just sent but have not yet been imported to the database.

Where the books will be sent from calibre depends on the template on the first page of the configuration pages for the KoboTouch/KoboTouchExtended driver. My personal use template is:

ebooks/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

To break down the template, ebooks is the name of the directory in the root of the exposed storage while {author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)} creates a directory based on the first entry in the author sort list. The {title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)} creates the name of the ebook file based on the book title with the first author in the author list. Both the first entry items are to keep the filenames/paths within limits given that I have quite a few anthologies with more than 15 authors and the paths and filenames exceed the limits that calibre imposes for compatibility.

Sample would look like:

ebooks/Flint, Eric/1633 - Eric Flint.epub

[Fusioncore]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

Finally managed to address @PeterT's comments. I have tested as much as I can using my Clara 2E but I don't have access to any 2024 Kobo's. So comments on their use would be much appreciated.

Originally Posted by PeterT

Cursory testing of this driver with Calibre Portable 629 worked.

However no such luck with Portable 348 No errors displayed but no device detected either.

Kobo Utilities seemed to work fine as well with Portable 629, however no such luck with KoboTouchExtended.

**IDEA**: I see that KoboTouchExtended defines a new class KOBOTOUCHEXTENDED that inherits from KOBOTOUCH. Likewise KoboTouch348 defines a new class KOBOTOUCH348 that inherits from KOBOTOUCH. When I have a chance I'll try changing the inheritance in KTE to inherit from KOBOTOUCH348 and see if that helps.

Of course this still leaves the question as to why Portable 348 does not work

Using the KoboTouch348-1.1.0.zip from Ghostcat, I modified KoboTouchExtended to work with KoboTouch348-1.1.0 using PeterT's suggestion. I have tested it with both a Kobo Libra Color and a Kobo Clara BW with Calibre 6.11 on macOS 11 - Big Sur.

After installing Kobotouch348, I disabled it to prevent it using it directly instead of the KoboTouchExtended.

[Rabbit]

Originally Posted by Ghostcat

Finally managed to address @PeterT's comments. I have tested as much as I can using my Clara 2E but I don't have access to any 2024 Kobo's. So comments on their use would be much appreciated.

I have just tried this with my Kobo Libra Colour - I can send books but I do get this error (see below). I can update the metadata which was most important though so a big THANK YOU.

[PeterT]

Just follow the instructions and select the driver option to support other f/w versions.

[Soliska]

Hello. I just got a new Kobo Clara BW. Unfortunately my Macbook Air is too old and can only run up to Calibre 6.29. I spent a few hours following the instructions on this thread, ended up installing Calibre 6.11, then he KoboTouch 348(1.1.0) - disabled it, so that it'll let me install the KoboTouchExtended (3.7.2).

It finally recognized the device and changed up the metadata BUT now it won't add new books. Anything added shows up in the directory when I look using finder, but when I disconnect the device, it won't trigger the 'importing content' screen.

Any thoughts??