With kobo sync there is no annotations possible

gotson / komga

Media server for comics/mangas/BDs/magazines/eBooks with API, OPDS and Kobo Sync support

https://komga.org

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With kobo sync there is no annotations possible #1692

Closed yodatak closed 1 week ago

yodatak commented 2 months ago

Steps to reproduce

Have kobo sync take an ebook from komga and add annotations

It dont work

Expected behavior

Annotations are created

Actual behavior

Annotation are lost

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Komga version

Latest

Operating system

Linux and kobo

Installation method

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gotson commented 2 months ago

as mentioned in my comment here i cannot reproduce this.

Can you provide more details, explaining what Kobo you have, and if your books are in KEPUB or EPUB format?

From my tests, you need a KEPUB for annotations to work in the first place, and the Kobo does not send annotations to the sync server at all, at least from what i observed from the traffic coming into Komga from the Kobo.

gotson commented 2 months ago

tested this again today on my Kobo Nia:

with a KEPUB:
- when selecting text, 2 options appear: Highlight and Add Note
- after highlighting or adding a note, the text will show specific highlight. Annotations can be seen in the annotations section of the book.
with an EPUB:
- when selecting text, 2 options appear: Highlight and Add Note
- after highlighting the text does not show specific highlight
- after adding a note, a popup will show "Note saved successfully". Text does not show specific highlight.
- nothing is shown in annotations section of the book.

SenorSmartyPants commented 2 months ago

I still haven't tried to test this for great if losing my user's annotations.

But here is our set up. No kobo store user account created. My understanding is that annotations are created, but then are destroyed on the next sync.