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I tried the plugin, mainly to see if I could get read status / Finished columns to work. Short version: I couldn't, at least not without introducing other problems.
Longer version: I probably got some settings wrong, because after configuring the plugin, it screwed up all my titles, and I got all sorts of weird syncing behaviour. I use the Kobo Extended driver, and have a plugboard to change titles to "Abbreviated series #1 - title", mainly because that's the only reliable way I've found to keep book in series displayed in the correct order (if anyone has an easier way, I'm all ears). After installing and configuring Kobo Utilities all titles were reverted to "Title", and the name of the series was displayed below. But more importantly (to me, at least) was that the order was screwed up.
To resolve, I had to delete Kobo Utilities, and delete and re-add all affected books. But my Kobo still adds the series below the title, something it didn't do before (or I didn't notice). What I also noticed during the re-adding was that certain books would get added to the wrong shelf (I have it set to either a shelf named after the series, or author if a book does not have a series) - in one particular case, I had John Scalzi's The Human Division (part of Old Man's War series) get added to the shelf for Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Series - and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. Also, after adding several book, I noticed that some previously added books would get deleted without warning - again, no clue as to why, I've lots of free space left. I closed and reopened calibre several times, and powered the Kobo off an on, which got everything working again, apart from the fact that series is still displayed below the title, but that's just slightly annoying. Oh well...
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