How to configure Calibre to have the books on the device correctly recognized

Gozer404 · 08-28-2018, 01:14 PM

Hi,

I'm facing this problem since a few months and on a least 2 devices:

Books are organized correctly on my PC (Windows 7 x64) and all details are filled correctly in the database (author,title,series,collection,.....)
When the book is send to the device the 'Device' button shows that it's correctly send to device and all books are listed correctly in this view
BUT instead of having the green tick in the main library view I only have one tick at the beginning of the list showing the numbers of book and not a one to one information.
See image in link : https://ibb.co/nRfDL9
And some books in the device are not detected as being in the library. See image in link: https://ibb.co/hTf8np

In the past (dunno when) it worked perfectly and I can't find why it's broken now... Help!

Calibre 3.29 / device seen as kobo Clara HD

theducks · 08-28-2018, 03:30 PM

Your template is messed up

(1st shot) 35 Books match. Possibly because the Author title or filename ON THE DEVICE matches a single entry
2nd shot is the result of the same problem. Some of those 35 books should have matched

With the device connected: right click the DEVICE Icon (which only appears when connected): Configure: (if you can't see the issue, post the settings here)
Note any pattern MUST resolve differently for each book.
eg {title} by itself, will overwrite for all books with the same TITLE, regardless of any other differences . Typically, {authors} - {title} is the minimum for file name. Note if you have the same book, but 2 languages (and your Calibre uses only one for the data entry), one will overwrite the other since {languages} was not part of your template.

Gozer404 · 09-07-2018, 02:37 AM

I'll check the settings when I'm back at home, but if you look closely at the 2nd picture (the device view) you can see a big part of these 35 books and all of them are different...

theducks · 09-07-2018, 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gozer404

I'll check the settings when I'm back at home, but if you look closely at the 2nd picture (the device view) you can see a big part of these 35 books and all of them are different...

Hadn't noticed the link.

BUT I did see some that had special characters. Those can get ASCIIized or dropped, making duplicates.

Please post your DEVICE template.

08-28-2018, 01:14 PM	#1
Gozer404 Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: France Device: SONY PRS-T2	How to configure Calibre to have the books on the device correctly recognized Hi, I'm facing this problem since a few months and on a least 2 devices: Books are organized correctly on my PC (Windows 7 x64) and all details are filled correctly in the database (author,title,series,collection,.....) When the book is send to the device the 'Device' button shows that it's correctly send to device and all books are listed correctly in this view BUT instead of having the green tick in the main library view I only have one tick at the beginning of the list showing the numbers of book and not a one to one information. See image in link : https://ibb.co/nRfDL9 And some books in the device are not detected as being in the library. See image in link: https://ibb.co/hTf8np In the past (dunno when) it worked perfectly and I can't find why it's broken now... Help! Calibre 3.29 / device seen as kobo Clara HD

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08-28-2018, 03:30 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,799 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Your template is messed up (1st shot) 35 Books match. Possibly because the Author title or filename ON THE DEVICE matches a single entry 2nd shot is the result of the same problem. Some of those 35 books should have matched With the device connected: right click the DEVICE Icon (which only appears when connected): Configure: (if you can't see the issue, post the settings here) Note any pattern MUST resolve differently for each book. eg {title} by itself, will overwrite for all books with the same TITLE, regardless of any other differences . Typically, {authors} - {title} is the minimum for file name. Note if you have the same book, but 2 languages (and your Calibre uses only one for the data entry), one will overwrite the other since {languages} was not part of your template.

09-07-2018, 02:37 AM	#3
Gozer404 Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: France Device: SONY PRS-T2	I'll check the settings when I'm back at home, but if you look closely at the 2nd picture (the device view) you can see a big part of these 35 books and all of them are different...

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