[Device Plugin] Kobo Touch Extended Driver

[jgoguen]

Originally Posted by serlex

is it configured at Calibre or Calibre-web? who is the one doing the conversion?

Everything about calibre-web is exclusively in calibre-web, it reads the calibre database but otherwise has nothing to do with anything in calibre.

[jgoguen]

Originally Posted by John F

A request ...

In the main menu, add "..." to "Update metadata in device library".
And add some verbiage that only selected books are updated.

Thank you for listening.

Nothing to do with this plugin, I believe that’s in Kobo Utilities by davidfor.

[jgoguen]

Originally Posted by jiembe

I don't know if I'm in the right thread but it is about the addition to some html files of <div class="book-inner"> when the epub is sent to the device as kepub.

My question: why <div class="book-inner"> is added to some of the files of the kepub and not all of them? I try to find what is different between those files without success.

Currently, book-inner is only skipped if a div with that ID is found in the file already or if there are more div tags than p tags.

[jiembe]

Originally Posted by jgoguen

Currently, book-inner is only skipped if a div with that ID is found in the file already or if there are more div tags than p tags.

Really! I will have to take a look. That never come to my mind.

Can I deduce that's the case when there is no p tags at all.

[jgoguen]

Originally Posted by jiembe

Really! I will have to take a look. That never come to my mind.

Can I deduce that's the case when there is no p tags at all.

I would expect that to be the case. If that’s causing issues in any books, use the Scramble plugin (I think it’s called Scramble Epub) to scramble the contents of a book and file a bug report on GitHub for me. I’m not sure how long it’ll take me to fix anything, but at least it’ll be on my list of things to look at.

[catsforjo]

Hello there
I was wondering where the Collections customization code is. I have set "sending books to device" to automatic management and my tags to turn into Collections on my kobo, and I want to customize this further to only make certain tags into Collections.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by catsforjo

Hello there
I was wondering where the Collections customization code is. I have set "sending books to device" to automatic management and my tags to turn into Collections on my kobo, and I want to customize this further to only make certain tags into Collections.

Configuration dialog:



You can either use a template or a column. The template reference is useful for the former.

Note that putting [Square Brackets] around an entry will prevent it from appearing on the Kobo.

[catsforjo]

Thanks! Using the template was easier than I expected. Only a few lines of code

[rashkae]

I ran into an interesting bug with the Extended Driver. I have a book with two files in the 'root' of the epub file. One named cover.jpeg (which is used in the title page.), and one named cover.jpg (which is referenced in another page.) When sending this book to to the Kobo with the extended driver, the contents of the .jpeg file overwrite the jpg file, (so the resultant kepub has 2 copies of the same image, one named cover.jpeg, the other cover.jpg.

Also, in this situation, the kobo was not able to generate a thumbnail. I'm not sure yet why that was the case.

(Sorry, forgot to mention, this is with version 3.6.7)

[theducks]

Originally Posted by rashkae

I ran into an interesting bug with the Extended Driver. I have a book with two files in the 'root' of the epub file. One named cover.jpeg (which is used in the title page.), and one named cover.jpg (which is referenced in another page.) When sending this book to to the Kobo with the extended driver, the contents of the .jpeg file overwrite the jpg file, (so the resultant kepub has 2 copies of the same image, one named cover.jpeg, the other cover.jpg.

Also, in this situation, the kobo was not able to generate a thumbnail. I'm not sure yet why that was the case.

(Sorry, forgot to mention, this is with version 3.6.7)

Probably caused by an improperly declared 'cover'. (the filename does not make it so) If I wish to include an alternate cover, I rename the file (not declared) as Alt_cvr to avoid unwanted help

[rashkae]

Originally Posted by theducks

Probably caused by an improperly declared 'cover'. (the filename does not make it so) If I wish to include an alternate cover, I rename the file (not declared) as Alt_cvr to avoid unwanted help

Indeed, I renamed the alt cover in my example... but there is no reason the kepubify process should be replacing jpg files. This wasn't a conversion. Somewhere in the repacking phase, files with the same name and filetype (but different extension) are getting mixed up. (The cover flag was properly set in the original e-pub, for both the title page and the jpg, but with this situation of image getting overwritten, the kobo did not like it. I did not examine the structure of the kepub further to see if the cover flag got misplaced as well.)