[davidfor]

Originally Posted by glos

Thanks david, I'm following your suggestion and using the plugin to set the books I've read as finished with the "change reading status in the device library" option, that's all I need, so I've deleted the {#read} part from the plugboard and only kept the {authors} - {#words}.

Glad that worked.

Only thing I've noticed is that, because the device doesn't handle more than one author (at least I remember reading that, and I've always noticed my books with 2 had only 1 written) when the book has more than 1 author the word count is not added to the author string (not even the -, just one author).
It's only for a few books so np, just wanted to let you know.

Unfortunately, the way calibre writes the multiple authors to epubs is not the way Kobo expects them. Calibre puts each author into the OPF file that contains the metadata as separate entry. Kobo only reads the first it finds.

There are two solutions for this. The first is to use the plugboard to change how the authors are written. There is a thread here from last year started by GeoffR that discusses this. It includes the plugboard he used to solve this.

The other way is using the utilities plugin to fix the authors. If calibre shows the book as on the device, you can select it and use the "Update metadata in device database" to fix the authors. For what you want, the options to select are "Author" and "Use plugboard". That should fix the multiple authors and add your word count.