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compurandom · 10-13-2017, 12:39 AM

Ok, I've got a feature request, and I'm not sure this driver (or the kobo utilities) is where it should go...

Under preferences -> import/export -> sending books
I have metadata management set to manual for some reason I can't remember, maybe I didn't want calibre deleting categories from books that I added directly on the device or something.

Is there a way I can force calibre to re-update the metadata for a book manually?
Specifically, I've added shelves to a bunch of books in calibre (I know which ones) since they were originally sent, and I'd like to resync those by hand.

Alternately, if I could tell it to automatically sync all new shelves without deleting existing ones, that would be even better.

I was hoping "update metadata" in kobo utilties would update shelves, but unless I missed a checkbox, it doesn't. There's a "get shelves" option, but no corresponding "put shelves".

10-13-2017, 12:39 AM	#1754
compurandom Wizard Posts: 1,016 Karma: 500000 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Rocketbook, kobo aura h2o, kobo forma, kobo libra color	Ok, I've got a feature request, and I'm not sure this driver (or the kobo utilities) is where it should go... Under preferences -> import/export -> sending books I have metadata management set to manual for some reason I can't remember, maybe I didn't want calibre deleting categories from books that I added directly on the device or something. Is there a way I can force calibre to re-update the metadata for a book manually? Specifically, I've added shelves to a bunch of books in calibre (I know which ones) since they were originally sent, and I'd like to resync those by hand. Alternately, if I could tell it to automatically sync all new shelves without deleting existing ones, that would be even better. I was hoping "update metadata" in kobo utilties would update shelves, but unless I missed a checkbox, it doesn't. There's a "get shelves" option, but no corresponding "put shelves". Last edited by compurandom; 10-13-2017 at 12:51 AM.