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Old 08-16-2013, 03:15 AM   #6
davidfor
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Originally Posted by selina4books View Post
Are there step by step instructions somewhere how to do this because I can see nothing in calibre about shelves. Thanks!
I was afraid someone would ask

To do it using calibre:

1) Open the configuration for the Kobo driver you are using. This is either the main KoboTouch driver or the KoboTouchExtended driver.
2) Remove the column names you currently have in the shelf columns field. That is the last field before the check boxes.
3) Into the shelf columns field, enter the search name of another column in your calibre library. it needs to be a columns that displays text rather than a date or number.
4) Uncheck the "Create bookshelves" option
5) Make sure the "Delete empty bookshelves" option is selected.
6) Save the changes
7) Make sure that on the "Sending books to devices" page of the preferences that "Metadata management" is set to automatic.
8) Restart calibre
9) Connect the Kobo device and let calibre do its thing.
10) When calibre has finished eject the device
11) Check the shelves are all gone and sync to the Kobo server to tell it to delete the shelves.

The only problem with this is if there are books on the device that are not in the calibre library. If any of those books are on shelves, those particular shelves are not empty and the driver will not delete them.
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