Thread: Touch Copy books from kobo to calibre
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Old 02-11-2013, 05:07 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Actually, one minor problem mostly due to author names. I have sideloaded quite a few book with multiple authors. When I copied from my Kobo to Calibre on my new laptop when I thought it was the easiest way to copy my current book set to a new laptop rather than copying the library on my home PC to the new laptop), I got a mass of books that were shown as not being present on the Kobo. For instance, my copy of 1633 which shows Eric Flint as the author in the author information and Flint, Eric in the file-as (author sort) field and David Weber as author in the extra information fields. When I copied the library from the Kobo to Calibre, the file name was changed from 1633 - Eric Flint & David Weber to 1633 - Eric Flint.

I do realize that Calibre has done this forever and I do see the arguments for how it handles file names, I still find it annoying that when I copy a book to Calibre, it sees the book as not being the same as the original file.
OK, because of the way the Kobo handles the author in the first place, it only has one author. When calibre is copying the book back, it must be relying on the metadata from the database. But, the full metadata is still inside the book. If after copying it back to the library, if you open the metadata edit screen and press the button to retrieve the metadata from the file, it should still all be there. I'll check that it works how I think it does when I have a chance.

But, if you are doing a mass fetch from the device, you may as well do it from the file system. That will work the same as putting a new book into calibre.
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