Thread: Guide to Collections Management with calibre (Touch / Glo / Mini /Aura)
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Old 07-19-2013, 10:22 PM   #220
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Originally Posted by khahoon View Post
I think that this is working mostly. Except that I think that it is overriding the device shelves names. Is it possible to retain the device shelves and add the Calibre series as a secondary shelve? It would work more like additive behavior.
There is no way to tell if the shelf was made using the device, was synced to the device from another device or created by the driver. So, no, this won't happen.

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Originally Posted by khahoon View Post
Btw I just realized that this plugin duplicates books on the device if one copies a book to device to couple times. While this sounds like a reasonable behaviour, would not it be much better if it would just overwrite books if they match? It would be very nice if there was an option to define this behavior in the plugin menu.

I have found this issue accidentally. I just thought that I could update the metadata on the device by copying over them, which led me to discover that my books on Kobo were duplicated.
Yes, you can put multiple copies of a book on the device. The most common is to put one in the main memory and one on the SD card. You can also have different formats of the same book. These won't change.

The only problem is if you change the save template or the metadata used by the template. In this case, sending a book again will use the new name that is generated from the template. This will mean two copies of the same book. What should be done in this case isn't completely obvious and different people will want different behaviour. I don't think a change in what happens will have much benefit.
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Originally Posted by khahoon View Post
Same here, it seems like the driver does not remove the empty shelves.

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It works. I take my complain back. You have to make sure that device metadata management is set to something different than "manual"
Yes, calibre and the driver have to be configured correctly for everything to work. And this is the most common step that is missed.
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