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Old 08-03-2017, 10:36 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Maillemom View Post
I have to admit I am very confused. So I created a custom column named custcol. So how do I configure this? Do I put the
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{author_sort} - {series}
in the template section?
Yes, that is what I was saying to do.
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When you say to add the columns to the "collection columns" in the driver. Is the driver the plugin? The metadata plug board?
The driver is the driver. It is a plugin, but it is a special type of plugin that is used by calibre to communicate with the devices. The driver knows how books are stored on the device and translates between that and calibre. Each type of device will have a different driver. You can configure the driver through the preferences, but the simplest way to get the correct driver is when the device is connected. At that time, right-click on the device button in the toolbar and select the option to configure the driver. This will open a dialog with all the options. For a Kobo device, the dialog is tabbed, and the options for the collections are on the second tab.

A metadata plugboard is used by calibre to change the metadata in a book when it is copied outside of the calibre library. Again, they are device specific and are intended to overcome deficiencies in how the different devices handle the metadata. The most common change is to add the series information into the book title. This is done because, other than Kobos, none of the devices can display the series information separately.
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I have tried to follow the documentation but I still can't get anything to work except now when I transfer my books it is now titling them - 01 -title, which is close to what I want except for the leading - which I can't find where it's coming from.
If you show us what you have in the metadata plugboard for that, and tells us what you really want, we should be able to tell you what is wrong.
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