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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I seem to remember hearing that at least the series in particular (for sideloaded books) requires manual insertion into the device database via a calibre plugin.
So just because a reader can display certain types of metadata does not mean that it knows how to extract that information from the EPUB metadata.
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For sideloaded books the database can be manipulated by both the standard calibre Kobo device driver and by calibre plugins.
For Kobo purchases the fields are populated by Kobo (not sure how) ... sometimes with good metadata, sometimes not.
The point I was trying to make is that the default database contains suitably named fields (e.g. Series, SeriesNumber) available for population and the device will automatically display whatever is in those fields. IMO this is a step forward from ignoring Series completely.
ETA: Just for the record, Kobos will read/display the opf content of <dc:description> without help from calibre or anything else.