Firmware 4.17.13694

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by davidfor

If I decide to reset whichever is the device I am using for reading, I just send all books that are being read or are unread.

Yeah, that's not an option for me. I have more unread books than I can fit on any one device (or can ever read in my remaining lifetime, for that matter). So I have to select which books go where (and which I probably won't read in the next ten years), and keep track of them. It's necessary even without doing any resets, just to know what is where.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Before I update the firmware, I plug the Kobo into the computer and copy everything that's on it. That way I have a backup just in case. That's the way I suggest doing it,

I consider all portable computing devices (tablets, laptops, etc.) to be disposable, in the sense that any day they could get lost, stolen, or broken.
I don't put anything on any such devices that I don't already have a copy of somewhere else.

For my kobo, there's no point in making a copy of what's on it, because calibre already has everything, including config settings that get automatically backed up.

I use a custom column (dedicated to each device) indicating which books are on the device, and use the reading list plugin to keep that in sync.

The only thing I'd lose if I had to unexpectedly replace (or reset) the device would be reading positions for individual books, because I don't want to wait for that to sync up every single time I side load.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by davidfor

I think Jon meant taking a copy of everything on the book partition of the device. I do this frequently when testing things. It allows me to restore everything back to the way it was if things go wrong.

I don't bother tracking what books are on the device in calibre. If I decide to reset whichever is the device I am using for reading, I just send all books that are being read or are unread. Plus some others such as test samples or the already read books in a series I am currently reading.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant.

I use the Reading List plugin to see what's on my H2O and making the books as on my Reader. So I don't have to do anything by hand. This way, If I needed to restore, I could easily.

[perisiana]

Is there a plug-in to see what books you have read (not necessarily with the reading percentage) that doesn't need so much time to load?
I have used the kobo utilities and is great, but I have like 3.000 books on my Kobo and it takes a lot to sync.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by compurandom

I consider all portable computing devices (tablets, laptops, etc.) to be disposable, in the sense that any day they could get lost, stolen, or broken.
I don't put anything on any such devices that I don't already have a copy of somewhere else.

For my kobo, there's no point in making a copy of what's on it, because calibre already has everything, including config settings that get automatically backed up.

I use a custom column (dedicated to each device) indicating which books are on the device, and use the reading list plugin to keep that in sync.

The only thing I'd lose if I had to unexpectedly replace (or reset) the device would be reading positions for individual books, because I don't want to wait for that to sync up every single time I side load.

The KoboUtilities plugin backs up the database and the Reading List plugin keeps track of which books I have on my H2O. I do also use KoboUtilities to backup where I am in the books I have going. I don't do so all the time. But given that I have the database, all I need is to make sure the books are on the H2O and I can restore the database, the books, and I'll be back in business.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by perisiana

Is there a plug-in to see what books you have read (not necessarily with the reading percentage) that doesn't need so much time to load?
I have used the kobo utilities and is great, but I have like 3.000 books on my Kobo and it takes a lot to sync.

How long is it taking? For my Clara HD, I have 2499 books, of which 1500 are in one calibre library. That takes 2 seconds to get the reading status.

[perisiana]

Originally Posted by davidfor

How long is it taking? For my Clara HD, I have 2499 books, of which 1500 are in one calibre library. That takes 2 seconds to get the reading status.

Like 20 minutes or more...
But maybe is my PC, is a little old.
Or my Kobo H20 first gen.
I'm happy to hear that it takes so little for you, I plan to change both shortly

[mathil]

In my case, I have 4000+ books in my Calibre library and almost all of them are loaded on my Glo HD. It was taking me around 3-4 minutes each time to update the reading status for all of my books, with a laptop from 2013 (i7, 6GB of RAM, SSD, with Windows 10 installed on it). I thought it was acceptable given the size of the database but I ended up disabling it and updating the reading status manually because I often connect my reader more than once (i.e. for updating series information) and it was bothering me.

[perisiana]

Originally Posted by davidfor

How long is it taking? For my Clara HD, I have 2499 books, of which 1500 are in one calibre library. That takes 2 seconds to get the reading status.

I tried it now and if I do it automatically it takes a few seconds but it doesn't record the reading percentage, to save the reading percentage I have to do it manually and it takes about 10 minutes

[NiLuJe]

@perisiana: You're saying the bit that's taking long is *saving* the percentages in Calibre's Library, not *pulling* them from the device?

(FWIW, my setup is everything automatic, with manual validation needed for actual update in Calibre, and both steps take a few seconds at best, even on the H2O. Granted, I'm nowhere near even a thousand books on device. And everything's KePub, in case that matters. And my column setup is fairly low key (basically, the reading % would be the most complex bits, because I have one for Kindles, one for Kobos, and both are used to compute a third one).).

[JSWolf]

OK, I've installed the new firmware and the patches. So far I am liking it.

[JSWolf]

In Chapter Progress, does time remaining work with ePub?

[forster01]

delete

[JSWolf]

I've found an interesting bug in the chapter numbering in ePub. Take a 10 screen chapter.

1-1-2-3-5-6-7-8-9-10.

I don't know what happens on a smaller chapter with less then 5 screens.

[Calenorn]

So how many days is the rollout expected to take? I've synced my kobo affilaite Clara daily, but nothing so far.