Thread: Glo Couple of Q's about the Kobo Glo
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Old 11-16-2012, 08:32 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by murg View Post
Actually, it is true. Natively, the Kobo's don't store series information. The series information isn't in the standard ePub metadata. The Kobo's only read the standard metadata.
As of 2.2.0, that is only half true. The database on the device now has fields for the series and series number. Plus it is displayed in the book lists.

Some of the books from Kobo have series information. To see how it is handled, get a preview and look at the preview list. "A Game of Thrones" has it. Unfortunately, that still has the series info in the book title as well. I have seen some others, but I can't find them right now.

The device handles this fairly well. The info is displayed in the library lists as a separate line. Searching looks at the series name as well as the title. Sorting the list includes the series name as part of the title. The only thing missing is a separate series list. Plus a way to get the series info for sideloaded books.

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Calibre stores its own metadata in the ePub, and I think, that in the case you showed, is changing the standard Author's Name metadata field to contain the Author's Name and the Series/Number.

As an alternative, it is probably also possible to have Calibre put the series information into the standard Book Title metadata field. This would cause the books of a series to sort together, if sorting by titles. I do this manually with my ebooks, and find it works well (for me, at least).
The advantage of getting calibre to do this is that it can modify the metadata as it sends the book to the device. The calibre library has the proper title and the series in a separate field. Sending it to the device adds the series info to the title.
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Caveat: I don't use Calibre. I did for a few weeks after I got my Touch, but didn't like how it worked or how it mangled the formatting of the ePubs.
How? Calibre should only "mangle" the epubs if you do a conversion. To get from other formats to epub, it is the simplest way. There are some reasons to convert from epub to epub, but most of them can be done with a plugin instead.
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