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LN1246 · 09-15-2014, 10:34 AM

Hello everyone,
I hope you will forgive my bad english and give me a hand with my problems.

I bought a Kobo Aura in december 2013 and learnt how to manage my ebooks and collections (sorted by tag, novel / SF...) with Calibre. I thought it was a good idea to buy an other reader (the same one, but with the 3.8.0 firmware) for my friend's birthday. I want to use Calibre to fill the new reader exactly the same way (no DRM restriction among my books, of course).

So, I updated Calibre (2.3, dowloaded today), then began by the reader configuration: I selected the Create Bookshelves and Delete Empty Bookshelves options. In the area for shelf info, I typed "tags" (and I have tried with "#tags" also, even though "tags" alone was sufficient with my first Kobo Aura).
I proceeded as usual with a few books, then another pair of books. The books and names of the series appeared correctly. But the shelves weren't created. I turned the reader off many times. Read again your guide to Shelf Management, and started the procedure again, with no result.
What has possibly changed between the 3.1.1 and the 3.8.0 version ? The procedure to create shelves by tags works with the old version and I still can't with the new one... Help and thank you!

09-15-2014, 10:34 AM	#395
LN1246 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: Kobo Aura	Hello everyone, I hope you will forgive my bad english and give me a hand with my problems. I bought a Kobo Aura in december 2013 and learnt how to manage my ebooks and collections (sorted by tag, novel / SF...) with Calibre. I thought it was a good idea to buy an other reader (the same one, but with the 3.8.0 firmware) for my friend's birthday. I want to use Calibre to fill the new reader exactly the same way (no DRM restriction among my books, of course). So, I updated Calibre (2.3, dowloaded today), then began by the reader configuration: I selected the Create Bookshelves and Delete Empty Bookshelves options. In the area for shelf info, I typed "tags" (and I have tried with "#tags" also, even though "tags" alone was sufficient with my first Kobo Aura). I proceeded as usual with a few books, then another pair of books. The books and names of the series appeared correctly. But the shelves weren't created. I turned the reader off many times. Read again your guide to Shelf Management, and started the procedure again, with no result. What has possibly changed between the 3.1.1 and the 3.8.0 version ? The procedure to create shelves by tags works with the old version and I still can't with the new one... Help and thank you!