Calibre can not send book to Kindle
Solution 1
If you're experiencing issues with your Kindle mounted as read-only it is probably due to some errors in the file system.
Find the folder of your device typing mount
In my case the output is:
/dev/sdc1 on /media/Kindle type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)
meaning that I have to correct the filesystem on /dev/sdc1
You can do that using fsck: sudo fsck.vfat -r /dev/sdc1
If you get ask which partition you want to correct select the first by pressing 1 and continue.
Unmount your Kindle and remove and plug again the USB cable, you should now be able to send and copy files from calibre to your device.
Solution 2
After running the fsck.vfat command, I was told that the dirty bit is set, which was probably because of unclean unmount. First I accepted to clear that bit, then it offered to correct the blocks in the first partition, which I declined. After reconnecting Kindle back, it mounted cleanly as RW partition. Thanks for the tip!
lucacerone
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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lucacerone almost 2 years
I don't know why but Calibre stopped sending working with my Kindle on Ubuntu 12.04 32 bits.
Till a few time ago everything was working just fine, but now whenever I connect my Kindle and try to send some book on the main meory of the device I get this error:
calibre, version 0.8.38 ERROR: Error: Error communicating with device [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/media/Kindle/documents/Blisett, Luther' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 81, in run self.result = self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs) File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/device.py", line 411, in _upload_books metadata=metadata, end_session=False) File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py", line 260, in upload_books filepath = self.normalize_path(self.create_upload_path(path, mdata, fname)) File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 1120, in create_upload_path os.makedirs(filedir) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/media/Kindle/documents/Blisett, Luther'
I realize it is something that has to do with the permissions, so I have tried to change them using chown:
sudo chmod a+rwx /media/Kindle
but I get this error:chmod: changing permissions of 'Kindle': Read-only file system
How can I fix this?
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niceman about 6 yearsThis is what solved my problem. Thank you for pointing this out.