[GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities

[enuddleyarbl]

That looks similar to a problem I had about a year ago:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...postcount=2373

In that case, davidfor actually updated the plugin to fix whatever the issue was. But, I had an earlier instance where either the names or the objects being pointed to in the TOC were duplicates. IIRC, I got around the issue by making sure any entries that would go into the TOC were unique and having Calibre re-generate the TOC. Unfortunately, it's been so long, I can't remember what I did. Sorry.

EDIT: And, of course, I don't understand the code at all.

[ownedbycats]

For what it matters, I've identified the cause of it: updating the ToC on a book where entries share the same name. Hence why I noticed it on an omnibus - there were several "chapter 1"s...

Best avoidance for this seems to be to delete the book outright from device and then re-upload it. Annoying though.

[enuddleyarbl]

That's one of the reasons I change chapter names in multi-book or multi-part works. Instead of just Chapter 1, 2, 3...., I change it to Book Name: Chapter 1. It's a bit of a pain, but I'm in there anyway.

[Glennza]

Hi everyone,

I have just been messing around setting up the Percent Read Column etc. I think I've got my head around it now.

I'm now trying to create a "Finished" column

({:'cmp(field('#percentread'),100,'','Finished','F inished')'})

and that seems to be working too but what I would really like to do is to flag books as "finished" in Calibre and have that metadata written back to the books on my Kobo Clara.

I now have a "Finished" section in collections and if I flag a book in Calibre under Custom Metadata as "percent read" = 100, it appears in the Finished section. However, the book itself still shows as "Unread".

After corrupting the Kobo database more than once, it would be great to be able to flag all of my previously read books en masse when I have to rebuild it.

What am I missing?

[Phil_C]

Originally Posted by Glennza

What am I missing?

Did you create the % Read column according to the instructions for the plugin? And did you select that column in the plugin Options tab for your specific device?

If all is correct, calibre will pick up the % Read from the books on the device each time you connect to the computer.

If you want to change the % Read in calibre, you can do that and use the plugin drop down menu to Restore to the device.

[isarl]

Originally Posted by Glennza

what I would really like to do is to flag books as "finished" in Calibre and have that metadata written back to the books on my Kobo Clara.

[…]

What am I missing?

It seems like this is your main stumbling block – you want to be able to mark a book as “Finished” in the Kobo's metadata, not only in your Calibre library.

Have you examined the Kobo Utilities “Store/Restore Reading Position” feature or the “Update metadata in device library” feature? The first of these will allow you to set the Kobo's reading status from the columns in your Calibre library. I think the only piece which might be missing is marking the book as finished in Calibre. However, regardless of what your Kobo reading process columns say in Calibre, the “Update metadata in device library” feature can set a number of books to “Finished” en masse. So you could just do this and then the “store” part to store the finished status for those books in your Calibre columns.

[Glennza]

Originally Posted by isarl

It seems like this is your main stumbling block – you want to be able to mark a book as “Finished” in the Kobo's metadata, not only in your Calibre library.

Have you examined the Kobo Utilities “Store/Restore Reading Position” feature or the “Update metadata in device library” feature? The first of these will allow you to set the Kobo's reading status from the columns in your Calibre library. I think the only piece which might be missing is marking the book as finished in Calibre. However, regardless of what your Kobo reading process columns say in Calibre, the “Update metadata in device library” feature can set a number of books to “Finished” en masse. So you could just do this and then the “store” part to store the finished status for those books in your Calibre columns.

Yes, this is what I was missing! Thank you very much.

[isarl]

Originally Posted by Glennza

Yes, this is what I was missing! Thank you very much.

Glad I was able to help; happy reading!

[Parzival]

I have a Kobo Aura N514 device. Does this plugin create a compatible text for my device when I convert it to ePUB format? If so, should I use this plugin?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Parzival

I have a Kobo Aura N514 device. Does this plugin create a compatible text for my device when I convert it to ePUB format? If so, should I use this plugin?

Is there some reason that you posted identical messages in multiple threads? Given the first message in the various Kobo threads you spammed have the information you were asking for, why not read them first before posting?

[decoherent]

Hi, I'm having some trouble getting the ToC updated on my Kobo Libra H2O. The plugin worked great to add the series metadata, so thanks for that :) Something about the ToC update process makes everything fall over, though. When the plugin finishes scanning through the books on my reader, it (correctly) notes that all of them need ToC updates. However, after running a few, I'll get the following error thrown:

calibre, version 6.17.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>TypeError</b>:tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str

calibre 6.17  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.10.1
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Kobo Utilities (2, 16, 6)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.koboutilities.action", line 5390, in update_book_toc_on_device
  File "calibre_plugins.koboutilities.action", line 5818, in update_device_toc_for_books
  File "calibre_plugins.koboutilities.action", line 5833, in update_device_toc_for_book
  File "calibre_plugins.koboutilities.action", line 5864, in getDatabaseChapterId
TypeError: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str

After this, I have to close calibre and disconnect/reconnect my reader before it'll do anything useful again (it just promptly throws the error otherwise). I've tried using a smaller subset of books, maybe 10 to 50, but sometimes it'll, sometimes it'll crash.

I have no idea what this means, is there a suggested fix?

[ownedbycats]

Can you narrow it down to any individual books? For example, books that have duplicate items (omnibuses with multiple 'chapter 1's) will throw a different error.

Unfortunately, davidfor passed away last year so this plugin is generally unmaintained.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by decoherent

I have no idea what this means, is there a suggested fix?

The attached beta version of the plugin *might* fix it. I don't use the plugin so I can't easily test it.

EDIT: beta version released.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by chaley

The attached beta version of the plugin *might* fix it. I don't use the plugin so I can't easily test it.

Was the fix specific to the H[sup]2[/sup]O? (like you, I have a Libra2 as my main reader)

[chaley]

Originally Posted by theducks

Was the fix specific to the H[sup]2[/sup]O? (like you, I have a Libra2 as my main reader)

No. The code was wrong. I don't see how it could have ever worked as it was unless the semantics of the python database calls changed.