Thread: [GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities
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Old 01-21-2018, 08:56 PM   #1452
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Originally Posted by jiembe View Post
Sorry for the confusion between series and collection (between french and English). By collection I mean a folder in Kobo to regroup books which can be from one or more series. So when I modify the metadata from KoboUtilities I change the series' name. Right? In the problematic cases, the books I was trying to modify the serial name had first a serial name which was the same as the collection's name. Those were the one which revert to the previous series' (collection's ) name.
Alright, you have me on what you are trying to do. Or, at least I hope so, as what I think you are doing doesn't sound like a good idea.

Firstly, the update metadata function in the Kobo Utilities plugin has absolutely no effect on collections. What this does is set the series information shown in the book lists. This is also searched when looking for books. I keep hoping that Kobo will create a series list, but they don't seem to want to.

For collections, everything is done by the driver. The guide in https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kob...nd_Collections shows what the configuration is. If you configure it properly, the collections are changed when you plug the device in and calibre sees it. Absolutely nothing you can do with the Kobo Utilities plugin will affect this.

In the guide above, "series" is used as an example. What will happen is that when you connect the device, it will create collections for all values in the series column for which the books are on the device. It will then add the books to those collections. And if a series name has changed, then the book will be removed from the old collection and added to the collection for the new name.

What that means is that if you have the collections on the device and then change the series name for a book, the next time that calibre sees the device, it will remove the book from one collection and add it to another.

Now, what you describe makes me think you are trying to use the series column for something other than the series a book is in. It sounds like you are trying to use it for some sort of reading list. If so, I would recommend not doing this. Create another column in calibre for this. Put values in it for the collection you want the book to appear in. Then configure the driver to use this column to create collections. Whether you use the series column as well, depends on whether that fits your usage.

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As for my edition problem I'm editing a book step by step until I find what I'm doing wrong in the last days.

But it is a tedious process since we can only verify the result in the Kobo which mean loading and unloading with a reboot between since without that reboot the book is not displayed properly.
What are you rebooting? If you are resending a book to the device from calibre, you should just be able to open it again. For the problem you reported, you probably want to delete the book first, and it won't matter whether you do it from the device or calibre. But I can't think of any reason to restart the device or anything else.
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