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Book titles not transferring properly to Kobo Aura H2O

January 7, 2020, 9:33 am
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I used to use Windows Explorer to side load everything to my Kobo Aura H2O, so to get the series name to show up in series books, I used to type it in the title box along with the book title. (EG. Harry Potter 01 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone).

I decided I wanted to use Calibre to transfer so I'd get the series name below like you do with regular kepubs. So I redid all 3000+ of my books with title, author, series name and number in the correct locations in Calibre, but I'm having some weird errors now when I send to device.

1) Non-series books are transferring with a dash in front, the title and the author name all on the title line. For example:

- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Austen

2) Series books are loading in like this:

Harry Potter 01 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter 1
J.K. Rowling

I am wondering if this has to do with how I set up Save to DISK.

{author_sort}/{title}/{series}{series_index:0>2s| | - }{title} - {authors}

I'm using this string so that series books have the series name and number, title and author and standalones books have just the title and author. If I left out the | - then the stand alone books all had blank spaces and dashes (just like they're transferring over). It organizes really nicely in Windows Explorer, but I'm afraid it seems to be messing up send to device (which is set up as {author_sort}/{title} - {authors} ).

Can anyone help so I don't have to redo 3000+ books for the second time this week??
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Can't sync ebooks with the same title/author from two different publishers

January 7, 2020, 1:30 pm
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[running Calibre 4.70 on Windows 10; auto-conversion from EPUB to KEPUB enabled via KoboTouchExtended plugin]

I believe this problem has a very simple solution but I couldn't find it anywhere on the Internet.

I have 5 couples of 'duplicate' EPUBS: in every one of them the ebook was published by two different publishers, and this is correctly detected by Calibre.
However, when I select all ten ebooks (i.e. the 5 couples of 'duplicates') and send them to my Kobo, only one copy per couple will get to the device.

And if I select the 5 'un-synced' ebooks and try to send them again to the device, Calibre will start the operation to convert them in KEPUBS, but the transfer will fail again with no alert appearing on the screen.

This behaviour is different from other instances, where Calibre recognizes two ebooks having the same title or being identical and asks me whether I want to add the ebook anyway or to cancel the transfer.

How do I fix this?
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Walmart (Kobo) to Kindle

January 10, 2020, 12:46 pm
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So I had a credit for some walmart (kobo) ebooks that I used to purchase a couple books... but I don't have a Kobo. I have a kindle. I'm trying to figure out how to get said books from my kobo account over to my kindle device.

I have the kobo windows desktop client installed as well as calibre and adobe digital editions all installed.

The problem is I have no idea how to use these 3 programs to do what I'm trying to do and I can't seem to find any kind of walkthrough anywhere.

My apologies if one exists already. Could someone point me in that direction if so? Thanks!
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Connecting to Rakuten Kobo

January 12, 2020, 12:58 am
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Hi,
I have an account on Rakuten Kobo and few books in there. I read them on my smartphone with the related App, but I can't download and see them on my computer, a Debian Linux stable with Calibre 3.39.1.
I do not have any e-reader device.

I looked for some solution around the web and in some forums, but can't find out how to solve the problem. How can I do?

Thanks a lot.
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[Kindle] calibre losing sight of device after one transfer

January 13, 2020, 11:02 am
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Hi,
my calibre ( ubantu version ) has started to lose sight of my kindle after one action either deleting a book or transfering a new book. it comes up with an error message telling me the path does not exist, the ubantu file explorer also no longer sees it. I have to disconect the kinde and reconnect before it can see it and will then perfom another operation. This only happens with my kindle not my partners. i have tried deleting all files from kindle in case there was a corupt file but does not make any diference.
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Add page numbers

January 14, 2020, 8:58 am
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Originally Posted by theducks (Post 3919666)
Please update your profile to say WHICH model+verson Kindle
They all behave differently in some cases. There may be a setting for your specific model.
I'm having trouble with my current library and my new KPW[Generation10]. All my books are AZW3 and page numbering has always worked fine with both my old KPW [gen 4 and 7 I think].

I tinkered yesterday but can't seem to get it working ie something about checking to see if 'apnx' files are there, which they are, and I checked my settings in Calibre while my Kindle was plugged in, this was what I had/did;
Checked already ‘read metadata’
Checked already ‘use subdirectories’
Save template filled with: {author_sort}/{title} - {authors}
Checked ‘send page numbers’ it was set to ‘fast’ in the submenu
I changed it to ‘accurate’
Both custom column menu were blank – there’s an option here for page column, I added 'Page'
Checked already overwrite existing apnx on device

I'm sort of tech challenged so I really don't know where else to start. Any patient and simple to follow instructions would be most helpful and appreciated!

ETA: at one point I thought I had it working so I deleted my whole library from my Kindle and re-synced. After waiting for it to index it wasn't working again.
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[Kobo] Reading progress not updated in calibre anymore

January 16, 2020, 12:09 pm
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Hi,

I have a Kobo libra H2O and when i connected my kobo to Calibre it used to update in Calibre my reading status "Last read Timestamp" and "Percent read".

Since a month it doesn't do it anymore and i don't understand why.
I updated Calibre to the last update, could that be the cause ?

Thank you,
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new kindle paperwhite not recognized by calibre

January 17, 2020, 4:01 pm
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Hello, as suggested by kovidgoyal, after trying all hints I decided to post my debug log.
I just installed calibre 3.21 on linux mint 19 (Tara).
When I connect my kindle paperwhite via USB, the disk is automatically mounted and I can browse the files. Unmounting the device (as suggested) does not help. The kindle is not in airplane mode. I don't know the device's version, I bought it one month ago.

Here is the log:
calibre 3.21 embedded-python: False is64bit: True
Linux-4.15.0-74-generic-x86_64-with-LinuxMint-19-tara Linux ('64bit', '')
('Linux', '4.15.0-74-generic', '#84-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 19 08:06:28 UTC 2019')
Python 2.7.17
Linux: ('LinuxMint', '19', 'tara')
Interface language: None
USB devices on system:
[['0x46d', '0xc326', '0x7900', u'Logitech', u'USB Keyboard', u''],
['0x46d', '0xc03e', '0x2000', u'Logitech', u'USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse', u''],
['0xbda', '0x129', '0x3960', u'Generic', u'USB2.0-CRW', u'20100201396000000'],
['0x8087', '0xa2a', '0x1', u'', u'', u''],
['0x1949', '0x324', '0x401', u'', u'Internal Storage', u'G000PP12926309UX']]

No disabled plugins
Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
No MTP devices connected to system

Looking for devices of type: SMART_DEVICE_APP
All IP addresses {'lo': [{'peer': '127.0.0.1', 'netmask': '255.0.0.0', 'addr': '127.0.0.1'}], 'eno1': [{'broadcast': '192.168.0.255', 'netmask': '255.255.255.0', 'addr': '192.168.0.42'}]}
No device is connected

Looking for devices...

Devices possibly connected: None

Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot in advance and regards
Alessandro, Italy
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[Kobo] Preferred device format overridden?

January 19, 2020, 5:25 am
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Hi there. I'm scratching my head with this one.

I recently got a Kobo. I want my ePub files stored in Calibre to be converted into kepub and then transfered to my Kobo. But no matter what I do, Calibre always sends it in ePub format (unless I manually convert it into kepub and then choose to send it in that format).

As you can see in the picture I attached, the KoboTouch plugin is configured to choose kepub as its preferred format. I did also choose kepub as my preferred output format in "Preferences - Behavior", but that didn't work either.

Any ideas? Is it safe to uncheck ePub from the plugin list? (I fear that a book may not be successfully converted into kepub, in that case, I'd like that file to be sent in plain ePub format).

Thank you in advance.

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Kindle fire 7 9th Gen not showing in calibre

January 19, 2020, 7:42 am
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Hi :)

My new Kindle fire 7-9th Gen is not showing in calibre.

I have a kindle 7 7th Gen that works just fine and is recognised, but the 9th gen just wont show. It shows as a device on the pc but kindle doesnt see it?

Im using the wire that came with it and tried plugging it into different USBs. The older kindle works fine with the new wire and is recognised everytime. If somebody could help i'd be most grateful :D
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GMX send failure

January 20, 2020, 8:21 am
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Does this log indicate why sending ebooks to my GMX account is not working? Thanks for any help.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\wizard\send_email.py", line 209, in test_email_settings
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtp.py", line 182, in sendmail
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\smtplib.py", line 645, in login
SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, 'Authentication credentials invalid')


Log:
connect: (u'mail.gmx.com', 587)
connect: (u'mail.gmx.com', 587)
reply: '220 gmx.com (mrgmx005) Nemesis ESMTP Service ready\r\n'
reply: retcode (220); Msg: gmx.com (mrgmx005) Nemesis ESMTP Service ready
connect: gmx.com (mrgmx005) Nemesis ESMTP Service ready
send: u'ehlo [10.58.0.122]\r\n'
reply: '250-gmx.com Hello [10.58.0.122] [104.143.92.125]\r\n'
reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
reply: '250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN\r\n'
reply: '250-SIZE 69920427\r\n'
reply: '250 STARTTLS\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: gmx.com Hello [10.58.0.122] [104.143.92.125]
8BITMIME
AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
SIZE 69920427
STARTTLS
send: 'STARTTLS\r\n'
reply: '220 OK\r\n'
reply: retcode (220); Msg: OK
send: u'ehlo [10.58.0.122]\r\n'
reply: '250-gmx.com Hello [10.58.0.122] [104.143.92.125]\r\n'
reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
reply: '250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN\r\n'
reply: '250 SIZE 69920427\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: gmx.com Hello [10.58.0.122] [104.143.92.125]
8BITMIME
AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
SIZE 69920427
send: AUTH <censored>
reply: '535 Authentication credentials invalid\r\n'
reply: retcode (535); Msg: Authentication credentials invalid
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Error Communicating with Device/Nook Glowlight 3

January 20, 2020, 11:05 am
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With apologies as I know this has been addressed elsewhere, but unfortunately not in terms I understand. I am not tech savvy, so answers in as non-technical language as possible appreciated.

After a recent Nook update, most of my side loaded files disappeared. When I try to move titles from Calibre, I get the following message and code:

calibre, version 4.8.0
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

[Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: u'F:\\NOOK\\Books'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 90, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 594, in _upload_books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\usbms\driver.py", line 322, in upload_books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\nook\driver.py", line 128, in create_upload_path
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\usbms\device.py", line 998, in create_upload_path
File "os.py", line 150, in makedirs
File "os.py", line 157, in makedirs
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: u'F:\\NOOK\\Books'

From previous postings, I understand this is a problem with my reader and not Calibre, but I have updated to 4.8 just to make sure (obviously to no avail).

Appreciate your help. If the advice is to move on to a Kobo or Kindle, I'm open to that too. I have absolutely loved the hardware to this reader, the software has been problematic. Thanks again.
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Can't Set Up Calibre in Windows 10 PC

January 23, 2020, 7:47 am
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I had Calibre running perfectly on my PC but unfortunately, I had to reinstall Windows on it. The Calibre database is fine on a hard disk (E drive) and Calibre was successfully downloaded to the C drive. When starting it up displays the message shown on the attachment. The details are:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\main.py", line 304, in initialize_db
File "site-packages\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 82, in __init__
File "site-packages\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 47, in create_backend
File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 408, in __init__
File "site-packages\calibre\db\schema_upgrades.py", line 19, in __init__
File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 874, in execute
File "c:\t\t\apsw-r08j4l0g\src\cursor.c", line 236, in resetcursor
ReadOnlyError: ReadOnlyError: attempt to write a readonly database

It will not rebuild it although it says it is trying and when I try to set up an empty library is crashes and closes.

I have re-downloaded the software several times and always with the same result. Any help would be appreciated

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need to convert kindle books that are only on ipad

January 23, 2020, 1:24 pm
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Hi folks. This is a conundrum. My Amazon account was hacked last year and I had to deactivate it. I opened a new Amazon account. The Kindle books on my iPad (and my wife's) were downloaded from the old account. In order to now download ebooks purchased from the new account, we need to deregister the iPads and re-register them on the new account. All books on the iPads from the old account will be deleted.

Amazon support says that they cannot migrate Kindle books from the old, inactive account to the new account.

I'm looking for a way to convert the Kindle books now on the iPads to a format that can be saved on the iPad, MacBook or both. Perhaps there is a way to save Kindle book files to the Mac, where I could then use calibre?

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. This is making me crazy.:blink:

protofish
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Authors' sort in Kindle Paperwhite

January 24, 2020, 11:13 am
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Hello there !
I'm using the last Kindle Paperwhite 32 GB and Calibre 3.48.
Everything runs fine when transferring azw3 ebooks from Calibre to Kindle, however when trying to sort books by authors in the Kindle, they appear sorted as:
First Name, Last Name (eg: Albert Camus, before Charles Andler)

I would have expected books sorted as:
Last Name, First Name (eg: Charles Andler, before Albert Camus)

The metadata in calibre are sorted correctly, and in the Device Window, when I click on the author column, they sort as Last Name, First Name...
In the Kindle 'document' directory, names appear correctly as 'Camus, Albert'.
(In calibre send to device options, the setting is {author_sort}/{title} - {authors}, as expected)

I suppose the problem lies in the way the Kindle reads the azw3 metadata calibre sends.

Is there a way to resolve this ?

Thanks.
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Uploading to Calibre from an ereader?

January 29, 2020, 7:59 pm
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I have used Calibre for years (app. 1300 books) and I have an old Sony Prs-T2 with app. 100 books on it. Now some time ago I lost my hard drive on my PC and backup didn't have all my books on it (my fault). I have recovered most books but I have about 20 books on my ereader where I can't find where I purchased them from and I don't want to have to rebuy them. Now I thought that some years ago I could upload to Calibre from my device. All my books are epub. Any suggestions on how I can upload these books. Many thanks :help:
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using 4.9.1 on Win7 pro 64bit

January 31, 2020, 8:45 am
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I have Win7pro 64 bit. I am informed that I can upgrade to 4.9.1 BUT I am also informed that I must stay with 3.48. I get conflicting advice. Does any one know what I must do?
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Imac communications problem

February 6, 2020, 7:09 am
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I just updated my iMac operating system to Catalina which is 64 bit. I've been using the same Kindle for years to access books on Calibre. Ever since I unstalled Catalina on my iMac whenever I try to download a book from Calibre a message pops up on the Calibre site that it cannot communicate with the device. ]
Is my problem because my new operating system is 64 bit and the Kindle is 32 bit? Please help. I am very frustrated.
Thanks.
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Can't upload a certain book to my Forma (Error communicating with device)

February 6, 2020, 7:49 am
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I can't upload a particular book from Calibre to my Kobo Forma. With other books, I can upload from Calibre to Forma without any problems. But with this one particular book, it gives this error message:
Quote:
calibre, version 4.9.1
ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device

No META-INF/container.xml in epub

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 90, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 594, in _upload_books
File "calibre_plugins.kobotouch_extended.device.driver" , line 399, in upload_books
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/kobo/driver.py", line 2099, in upload_books
File "calibre_plugins.kobotouch_extended.device.driver" , line 206, in _modify_epub
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/container.py", line 1180, in __init__
InvalidEpub: No META-INF/container.xml in epub
I get a similar message for maybe 2 or 3 other books.

What's wrong and how can I fix this problem?
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New Kindle Fire 7 isn't recognized by Calibre

February 8, 2020, 6:52 pm
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I've run all the troubleshooting that is recommended. My computer recognizes the new device, but Calibre doesn't. Here's what the debug run says- which is another language to me. Any help would be hugely appreciated!! TY!

calibre 4.10.1 embedded-python: True is64bit: False
Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 Windows ('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
32bit process running on 64bit windows
('Windows', '10', '10.0.18362')
Python 2.7.16+
Windows: ('10', '10.0.18362', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
Successfully initialized third party plugins: KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 82, 1) && Kindle Collections (1, 7, 24)
USB devices on system:
(USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\root_hub20&vid8086&pid1c26&rev0005 devinst=2),
USBDevice(vendor_id=0x10f1 product_id=0x1a33 bcd=0x6707 devid=usb\vid_10f1&pid_1a33&rev_6707&mi_00 devinst=3),
USBDevice(vendor_id=0xa5c product_id=0x21e3 bcd=0x112 devid=usb\vid_0a5c&pid_21e3&rev_0112 devinst=4),
USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\root_hub20&vid8086&pid1c2d&rev0005 devinst=5),
USBDevice(vendor_id=None product_id=None bcd=None devid=usb\vid_1949&pid_0c31&rev_???? devinst=1),
USBDevice(vendor_id=0x10f1 product_id=0x1a33 bcd=0x6707 devid=usb\vid_10f1&pid_1a33&rev_6707 devinst=6),
USBDevice(vendor_id=0x8087 product_id=0x24 bcd=0x0 devid=usb\vid_8087&pid_0024&rev_0000 devinst=7),
USBDevice(vendor_id=0x8087 product_id=0x24 bcd=0x0 devid=usb\vid_8087&pid_0024&rev_0000 devinst=8))

No disabled plugins
Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
List of WPD PNP ids:
[u'\\\\?\\usb#vid_1949&pid_0c31#g0w0x8089366gqqs#{6 ac27878-a6fa-4155-ba85-f98f491d4f33}']
MTP device: \\?\usb#vid_1949&pid_0c31#g0w0x8089366gqqs#{6ac278 78-a6fa-4155-ba85-f98f491d4f33}
{'device_version': u'1.0',
'friendly_name': u'',
'has_bulk_properties': True,
'has_storage': True,
'manufacturer_name': u'Amazon',
'model_name': u'Fire',
'protocol': u'MTP: 1.00',
'serial_number': u'G0W0X8089366GQQS',
'storage': [],
'type': 'media player'}
Not a suitable MTP device, ignoring

No suitable MTP devices found

Looking for devices of type: SMART_DEVICE_APP
All IP addresses {u'{C92F59AF-5803-4EBF-A56E-1CD73B5032B9}': [{'broadcast': u'10.0.0.255', 'netmask': u'255.255.255.0', 'addr': u'10.0.0.113'}], u'{E8E0D583-1054-11E8-BCB9-806E6F6E6963}': [{'broadcast': u'127.255.255.255', 'netmask': u'255.0.0.0', 'addr': u'127.0.0.1'}]}
No device is connected

Looking for devices...

Devices possibly connected: None
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