Thread: best way of organizing actual book files on device
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Old 05-29-2016, 01:34 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by marp68 View Post
Hmm okej

Is "collections" the same as "shelves"? Seems a bit confusing.
That's history. When Kobo first added the function, they called it "Shelves". Later they renamed it to "Collections". Personally, I preferred "Shelves", but "Collections" is more correct for the way that Kobo do it. And because I got used to "Shelves" first, I sometimes slip.
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I read the wiki, but don't understand everything and I don't now if I explained myself correctly. On my device I have created collections and added the books to these collections. Looking at the device through Calibre, there is now a Collection column and all books on the device showe their corresponding collection name in the collection field. Then I added some new books to the device which naturally shows up when looking on the device through Calibre. Since I haven't added them to any collection yet, the collection column fields are empty. In the collection column field for a specific book I can write an existing Collection name though and it seems to save it, since it stays when moving on to another new book doing the same thing. But when I unmount and look at the device they still haven't been added to a collection and when reconnected to the computer the fields are empty again when I look through Calibre.

First, am I at all supposed to be able to write directly in the field like this and with correct configuration be saved on the device? Second, does the fact that it's not saved on the device means that I havent configured the plug in correctly?

Which driver are we talking about? I have just added some kobo plugins in Calibre and then the reader driver was of course installed when connecting the reader for the first time.
The collections column in the device list is used to display the collections the books are in on the device. While it can be changed, this is not written back to the Kobo devices. I don't know what devices it does work with.

The collection management is done by choosing one or more columns in the library and using that to define collections on the device. You put those into the driver configuration (right-click on the device icon when it is connected and choose "Configure this device") with commas separating the names. Do the rest of the configuration, automatic for the metadata management is the one most commonly missed, and the next time you connect the device, the driver will put the books into the collections as defined by the columns. If that doesn't happen, then we look at what went wrong.
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