Glo removing non-downloaded kepubs?

[dakini]

I'm wondering if someone knows if it's possible to do this, and how ...

I always sideload my epubs via Calibre.

My Glo's running 3.1.1. I know, old version, but this was a replacement by Kobo after a software update rendered my last one useless. So it's stable, it works, I don't update it, and I leave the wifi off.

I have some kepubs associated with my account that it automatically says are available for download.

I've been trying to delete these from the list of titles on the ereader. No luck. It gives me a tick-box for "remove from account" and if I un-tick that, I lose the ability to remove the title from the Kobo itself. Ut needs wifi to remove from account.

Is it possible to remove them? I tried to connect to wifi, since it seems to want to connect to my account in order to delete them, but it keeps trying to force a sync. Which I don't want. Help?

[doubleshuffle]

In Settings-->Library settings tick the box "Only show downloaded items." I'm on 3.8.0, but I'm pretty sure that I've had this option ever since I started out with 2.6.0.

[dakini]

the problem is that there are some books like Frankenstein which are showing up as non-downloaded kepubs. I've tried several times now to use calibre to sideload my own copies of epubs of the same books ... and the sideloaded books will show up, all except the ones that there are non-downloaded kepubs. I just tried again to sideload Frankenstein. no luck. everything else showed up fine, not the one that it thinks it has a link to a kepub for ...

[doubleshuffle]

Weird. I've bought hundreds of books from Kobo, but NEVER use the kepubs; so I have hundreds of DRM-disinfected, sideloaded epubs on my reader, for which there is a kepub equivalent in my account, but I don't have your problem. The only difference I can see is that I don't use Calibre to sideload my books but simple drag-and-drop. Have you tried that?

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by dakini

the problem is that there are some books like Frankenstein which are showing up as non-downloaded kepubs. I've tried several times now to use calibre to sideload my own copies of epubs of the same books ... and the sideloaded books will show up, all except the ones that there are non-downloaded kepubs. I just tried again to sideload Frankenstein. no luck. everything else showed up fine, not the one that it thinks it has a link to a kepub for ...

i think your issue is that Kobo database does not allow 2 versions of the same book. so you cant have both epub and kepub with same author + title.

if you delete the kepub versions you should then be able to sideload the matching epubs OK

[Aanya]

Last month I faced same problem when I was traveling to UAE. I thought may be any virus (no idea) or any other due to changing country..

By chance there was an expert in same place and he solved the issue and now I am fine.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by cybmole

i think your issue is that Kobo database does not allow 2 versions of the same book. so you cant have both epub and kepub with same author + title.

if you delete the kepub versions you should then be able to sideload the matching epubs OK

That is definitely not the case. I frequently have both the purchased kepub and the DRM freed epub on my device. Plus at times I sideload as a kepub to test something. Or simply put the epub in a different spot so I can have two copies to compare. Or because I changed the file template and resent a book.

The key used in the database is based on the full file path of a sideloaded book. For purchased kepubs, it is an id from Kobo which is used as the file name.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by dakini

I'm wondering if someone knows if it's possible to do this, and how ...

I always sideload my epubs via Calibre.

My Glo's running 3.1.1. I know, old version, but this was a replacement by Kobo after a software update rendered my last one useless. So it's stable, it works, I don't update it, and I leave the wifi off.

I have some kepubs associated with my account that it automatically says are available for download.

I've been trying to delete these from the list of titles on the ereader. No luck. It gives me a tick-box for "remove from account" and if I un-tick that, I lose the ability to remove the title from the Kobo itself. Ut needs wifi to remove from account.

Is it possible to remove them? I tried to connect to wifi, since it seems to want to connect to my account in order to delete them, but it keeps trying to force a sync. Which I don't want. Help?

Leave he "remove from account" option ticked. The device doesn't need to talk to the server to delete the books. If it can't do it, it will mark the books as deleted in the database. At the next sync, it will do the rest. If you never sync, then it won't change the server.

If the point of keeping the WiFi off is to prevent an update, don't worry to much about it. The update will only happen when you do a sync. If you never sync, it doesn't happen. You can use the browser or delete books with no worries. You can even use the bookshop to buy a book. That will download, but not sync the rest of the books. But, I like 3.8.0 a lot more than 3.1.1. I would upgrade.

Originally Posted by dakini

the problem is that there are some books like Frankenstein which are showing up as non-downloaded kepubs. I've tried several times now to use calibre to sideload my own copies of epubs of the same books ... and the sideloaded books will show up, all except the ones that there are non-downloaded kepubs. I just tried again to sideload Frankenstein. no luck. everything else showed up fine, not the one that it thinks it has a link to a kepub for ...

Now, that is weird. There is no reason that you can't have multiple copies of the same book on the device. Different formats are even less of a worry. For these books, can you check they are copied to the device? After sending them, check they are on the device disk. And if you just sent one or two of these books, do you get the black processing screen when you disconnect? If you power the device off and restart it, does anything seem to go wrong? Namely, books being reloaded or the reading position changing.

As a thought, is the time on the device correct? If it thinks it is 1970, fix the time and then do a search for one of the missing books. If it turns up, delete it, connect and resend it from calibre.