Nook simple touch, calibre can't talk to it (linux)

[setherd]

I don't often use my Nook Simple Touch anymore but today I hooked it up to my computer running Linux Mint 17. I have the latest calibre 1.40.

My computer sees the nook fine. I can copy files to it without problem.

calibre gives me an error every time "Error communicating with device"

calibre, version 1.40.0
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

maximum recursion depth exceeded

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 86, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 490, in _books
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 215, in books
File "os.py", line 294, in walk
File "os.py", line 294, in walk
---this repeats ALOT----------------
File "os.py", line 294, in walk
File "os.py", line 284, in walk
File "genericpath.py", line 44, in isdir
File "stat.py", line 41, in S_ISDIR
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Any ideas?

[kovidgoyal]

You have a a very deeply nested folder structure on your Nook that python's stdlib cannot handle.