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Originally Posted by DNSB
I am rather puzzled as to why anyone would have a book on their ereader without also having a copy in Calibre. Lose your ereader? The books are safely stored elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It is necessary to have a copy on the Kobo and in the Calibre library in order for the series information to be passed to the Kobo. But why would you delete the book from Calibre? Once you read it and delete it from the Kobo, you'd then have one copy if it was still in the Calibre library.
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You're right, that doubts are appropriate: I wasn't clear.
- So, why not a copy also within Calibre Library?
For what concerns actual e-books, regularly bought in the e-stores, I do have a copy in my Calibre library, first of all, and I manage them just with the software: full metadata support, optimal customization, sending them to Kobo with the proper command.
But, in addition to reading actual e-books (novels, narratives, essays), the other main usage of Kobo for me (even more important, maybe) is to grab articles from the Web, converting them to .epub (with nice tools like DotEPUB or Grab My Books) and upload them to Kobo, then, with the aim to read them comfortably, in the following days, without hateful distractions. I refer mainly to in-depth articles of culture, arts, geopolitics, but also brief columns from on-line newspapers, posts from my favourite blogs, as well as little finds from the web.
In these case, it wouldn0t be so important to store a copy of the article also in Calibre: often I read these articles only once or twice, then I just trash them, or after some days, tops (directly through the Kobo "Remove" function).
Maybe you can judge it industrious, but such a habit (not so difficult, actually) is a wonderful method for me to operate a selection only of the most interesting articles and to pay them the proper attention when I read, due to the care I had to take to convert them, to summarily control the formatting of the paragraphs, and, indeed, to cutomize their metadata to better be aware of their origin, their authors and their URL also when in Kobo, later, extrapolated from its original source.
Anyway, if also a copy in the Calibre library is requested for a complete management of metadata, correct sending to Kobo without errors and so on, no problem: I will match the articles both in Calibre and Kobo.
- Show Series / Series Index:
I followed your suggestions, and still I couldn't understand to 100% the behaviour of Calibre/Kobo with metadata. But in something, at least, I succeded: the Series has come back.
I will post my deductions, soon.