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Originally Posted by timlegge
Hi
Apparently I am not understanding your issue. Can you tell me the exact steps that you were following and what happens versus what should happen.
I have not seen any weird issues myself but I regularly reset my reading status so I may be missing something.
Right now it works like this:
If your Metadata handling is set to manual (Under Preferences-Send to device)
1) Calibre reads your database and displays the status that you have on the device.
2) Editing a collection tag on the device via calibre resends the entire collection to the device with any updates (if you had 10 books in Im_Reading and you removed a tag for one book it clears them all and sends updates the status of the 9 books. (Just the way it works in Calibre and should work fine)
Deleting a book (not a tag) removes the file and all related rows except the book row which is updated to Expired (This is how the device does it). The book is now hidden in the Kobo and now in Calibre. Expired book rows are removed by the device during a sync.
If you want to recover a book you need to login to your account at the kobo website and put the book back on your reading list (normal ePubs and PDF docs can just be reloaded)
The automated metadata process is similar except it replaces the statuses on your device with what ever your tags within Calibre are set to be for Closed, Im_Reading or Read.
Let me know what you are seeing and I will get it fixed.
Tim
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I'll walk you through what I did and the problems I had when using the new Calibre version.
When I edit a collection tag, the metadata file won't update. I unplug the Kobo, let it reload and process as per normal, and the book remains in I'm Reading, for example, despite my deleting the tag. So, as your example went, I tried to change it from 10 to 9 books, but the list persisted in showing 10 books.
Because I was having this problem, I decided to work around it by deleting books entirely that I wanted to get out of the I'm Reading list. However, when I re-added them to the library on Calibre then sent them to device, after unplugging and letting Kobo process, the books did not show in the ereader library. I then checked back on Calibre, and they showed as being in the collection tag 'Expired'. Since deleting the collection tags isn't changing the data on the Kobo, there was no way to restore the books to working and visible on the device. The books are purchased; they are not expired.
I deleted the 'Expired' books again and removed the new Calibre, then freshly installed Calibre 7-5, which is what I was using before upgrading. When I downgraded back to Calibre 7-5 and re-added the books that had become 'Expired', they displayed as normal and, after sending to the device, showed up as normal in my library. I was also able to edit collection tags again, and the data updated on the Kobo properly. Basically, the normal process you described works with Calibre 7-5, but not the newest version.
FYI: I never load purchased books with the Kobo app; it constantly resets books as new/I'm reading when you sync. I download the Adobe file direct from the Kobo website and then sideload.
As for the firmware, it's 1.7.4 from Nov 2010 according to my Settings.