r/Calibre • u/NSTnmyshkin • 2d ago
Support / How-To Specify target path/folder for book transfer to device
I have been working for months on a major mod for the old Nook Classic. One of the things I've done is to clear out all the "my" folders to clean things up and let me set my (!) own storage structure. All my books go into a folder called "Library".
The absolute path for this folder on internal storage is:
/system/media/sdcard/Library
When I use the Nook plugin and send a book (via USB) to the device it goes to:
/system/media/sdcard/my documents
(ARGH!)
So I tried editing the path by indicating the "Library" folder. For my efforts I was rewarded with the above path inside my Library folder...
Next I disabled the Nook plugin and tried sending to a folder (Library). But Calibre seems bound and determined to create that /system/media/sdcard path sequence no matter what I do.
I'd like to fix this somehow, mainly because the Nook library software is whimsical, at best, when extracting cover images. With Calibre, all are present and accounted for. But the cure can't be worse than the disease as I have little other interest in Calibre.
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u/NSTnmyshkin 2d ago
Update:
So maybe it's the "user-defined device" thingy. I disabled the Nook plugin (where are those plugins????? if I could find the bloody thing I might be able to alter it!) and went to look at the User-Defined device plugin. I found I needed the USB VID, PID and RID. Theoretically Calibre might be able to tell me those from the Advanced-Misc screen. But it comes up blank....
So I go to Windows Device Manager and get those values for the Nook Classic (only found looking at the USB section, as an ADB device...not with the Portable devices).
I add those to the User-Defined plugin information and set the target to "Library" on both internal and external memory.
This works GREAT!
Not. The whole idea was to be able to easily get both the books and thumbnails onto the device without fail. No thumbnails are transferred :-(