09-05-2010, 06:43 AM | #1 |
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My Kobobrick?
Last night I started noticing that whenever I powered on my Kobo reader it had forgotten the last page of the book I was on ( returning to a page I was previously at earlier ).
Thinking this may have been disk space related ( I had 8k free on the internal storage ) I moved about 200mb of ePub files to my external SD card, since then the units been stuck at "processing content" for several hours. I managed somehow to reset it but putting a pin in the back and pressing random buttons, but now the unit just sits at "eReading: anytime, anywhere" as tho its starting up. I don't seem to be able to power the unit down either. I suspect the internal DB might have been corrupted ( and I seem to be seeing a few threads about that ) so am currently downloading the kobo-dir-fresh-1.4.zip file mentioned in other forums. But before I start replacing DBs I was wondering if anyone else had seen a similar problem? Does this sound like a DB corruption issue? |
09-05-2010, 07:24 AM | #2 |
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Interesting - being the impatiant guy I am I replaced the database, rebooted the Kobo (without my SD card installed ) and it booted fine, only had the 100 default books but I suspect if I plug it in via USB then restart it'll process and find them.
So..... I restarted the Kobo and plugged in the SD card... and blammo - its dead again. I wonder if its a bogus ePub on the SD card... |
09-05-2010, 07:49 AM | #3 | |
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Another possibility is that you have a corrupt filesystem on your SD card, or perhaps even a bad card. |
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09-05-2010, 09:28 AM | #4 |
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The Kobo software was designed to accommodate loading one book at a time - notice you can only buy one book at a time? So when you throw 200 books at it all at once, it will seem to choke. In your case, I'm assuming all your books were once processed successfully, so it should simply be a matter of time - if your battery is charged fully. Note: Bad epubs will cause it to hang; new books should be added only a very few at a time.
You could try loading only ten books at a time onto the SD card, then processing them. It will take more work from you, but the total time should be about the same. Then you would have some idea how long you should have waited - assuming the battery held out. Last edited by pholy; 09-05-2010 at 09:30 AM. Reason: Addd Note for clarity and completeness. |
09-05-2010, 10:57 AM | #5 |
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For the sake of clarity, I'd go ever further. I'd remove old
db, remove all books from flash, remove SD card. Then would add factory made db and recharge. Finally would add few books only, to internal flash. If goes fine... Else, new post. |
09-05-2010, 09:44 PM | #6 |
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When I upload ebooks to my Kobo via Calibre, I limit the amount to 15-20. Any more may well cause the device to lock up. I very much doubt that the Kobo is alone here amongst all the ereaders.
Even my smartphone and PDA running Mobipocket get upset whilst uploading 20+ ebooks via Mobipocket Desktop in one session. |
09-06-2010, 12:51 AM | #7 |
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Definitely only load 10 to 20 ebooks at a time, otherwise the Kobo chokes big time!
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09-06-2010, 09:19 AM | #8 | |
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She then said that they've had complaints about this and are working on implementing a shopping cart system so that one can purchase several books at a time. I have downloaded several books at a time from libraries without freezing problems on my Kobo. The only book I had trouble with in terms of the time it took to load up was the Elizabeth George book This Body of Death. It was 624 pages ... so a little longer than the average book, but still seemed to take longer to load up than I thought reasonable. I put it down to some formatting problem within ADE. I've finished that book and begun the next one ... no problems so far. Just my two cents ... Mary |
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09-07-2010, 05:14 AM | #9 |
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After resetting the database and slowly copying ePubs back to the unit - seems fine tho.
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09-07-2010, 08:02 PM | #11 | |
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I suppose if you are just reading one book at a time ... and don't mind buying only one book at a time ... then you don't need a shopping cart. However, if, say, you were going on vacation ... and weren't going to necessarily have computer access ... you might still like to read. Thus you might pick up 4 or 5 books at a go. I have no experience with iTunes ... so I don't know why it would also be cart-less. Not having a shopping cart on the website is simply short-sighted to me. With a shopping cart you can still purchase just one book ... but you can purchase several at once. It covers all the bases ... and I'd have assumed that a competent web designer would have known that. Mary |
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09-08-2010, 05:03 AM | #13 | |
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I've tried deleting the whole "Digital Editions" directory and recopying the files across a few times, but no joy. Anyone else seen this at all? |
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09-08-2010, 05:46 AM | #14 |
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Check to see that you reset your date/time on the Kobo. That makes a difference. Did you try deauthorizing and then reauthorizing the Kobo and/or the computer? There are instructions in the FAQ on the mobile reads wiki. I'm assuming you are not getting a content locked message, or you would have mentioned it, right?
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09-08-2010, 07:43 AM | #15 | |
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Sadly, even after deauthing then reauthing I still get "the content is locked" message - I should have mentioned I was seeing that before hand. I wonder if I have to copy the files back AGAIN from ADE to the device now. Has anyone mentioned how horrible that software is lately? |
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