Calibre v8.0 kepub features?

[comercializado]

I want to continue using the Calibre "Kobo Touch Extended" add-on (metadata management, series in an author's books, collections, etc.), so I had to downgrade Calibre to version 7.26. Is it possible to disable this option in Calibre when sending books to Kobo and keep the Kobo Touch add-on? What are the steps?

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by comercializado

I want to continue using the Calibre "Kobo Touch Extended" add-on (metadata management, series in an author's books, collections, etc.), so I had to downgrade Calibre to version 7.26. Is it possible to disable this option in Calibre when sending books to Kobo and keep the Kobo Touch add-on? What are the steps?

Which are the options you're missing in the Kobo Touch driver at calibre 8.0? As far as I know, all metadata management options in Kobo Touch Extended have been migrated to Kobo Touch? Have you checked the driver configuration in 8.0?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by comercializado

(metadata management, series in an author's books, collections, etc.)

Those are in the stock KoboTouch driver. The only thing the extended driver adds is the kepub support.

[comercializado]

Indeed I hadn't noticed the settings. Issue resolved.

Thank you very much

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by comercializado

Indeed I hadn't noticed the settings. Issue resolved.

Thank you very much

Yeah, you'll have to copy your settings over as the Touch and TouchExtended configs are stored separately. I think you can access the settings on disabled plugins to copy them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Probably with KoReader. It supports the Wireless Device (under Connect/Share).

But if you are using KOReader, you would not want KePub. You would want ePub for KOReader.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Another advantage is that the Calibre itself is more reliably updated. Last year, jgoguen took a holiday break leaving behind a rather annoying bug in the plugin that caused spaces to run together.

Other plugins are outright abandonware (Kobo Utilities before Majutsushi took it over, all of DaltonST's plugins) and have various broken functions.

Kobo Utilities did have to occasional fix here and there.

As for calling Kobo Utilities abndaonware. I disagree. I would only call something abandonware if the author abandoned it and nobody else took up the maintenance.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Kobo Utilities did have to occasional fix here and there.

As for calling Kobo Utilities abndaonware. I disagree. I would only call something abandonware if the author abandoned it and nobody else took up the maintenance.

It was abandonware due to davidfor's passing, not anymore.

It didn't have one official maintainer anymore so all fixes were community-contributed.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by .tycho

Also wondering, in Preferences>Behavior>Preferred output format, should I now set this to KEPUB?

That depends if you want to read KePub or ePub.

I have a custom column (Y/N) setup to tell the driver if I want ePub or KePub. In the driver, I have a small template to tell the driver which format I want.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

It was abandonware due to davidfor's passing, not anymore.

It didn't have one official maintainer anymore so all fixes were community-contributed.

I am glad that Kobo Utilities now has someone to maintain it.

[Lavender]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I am glad that Kobo Utilities now has someone to maintain it.

Speaking of kobo utils, I’m still unclear on one thing about it. It backs up reading stats, and page number to the columns you set up for it as described in the documentation. Do those data points get sent back to the kobo device if you delete the kepubs, and sync them again later?

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Lavender

Speaking of kobo utils, I’m still unclear on one thing about it. It backs up reading stats, and page number to the columns you set up for it as described in the documentation. Do those data points get sent back to the kobo device if you delete the kepubs, and sync them again later?

not automagically. You can restore them: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ading-position

[Lavender]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

not automagically. You can restore them: https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFa...ading-position

Gotcha. Thanks for that. Makes sense that it doesn't happen automatically now that I think about it.

[Mr_H_Poirot]

Is there any difference between

a) importing a kepub from standard ebooks direct to kobo
Or
b) importing the epub from standard ebooks into calibre and then having calibre convert it to kepub when it sends to kobo?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Mr_H_Poirot

Is there any difference between

a) importing a kepub from standard ebooks direct to kobo
Or
b) importing the epub from standard ebooks into calibre and then having calibre convert it to kepub when it sends to kobo?

Garbage in, garbage out.

A. you don't know how the KePub was made.
B. You can use calibre or KePubify to make the KePub.