Thread: [GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities
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Old 01-23-2018, 12:15 AM   #1456
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Originally Posted by jiembe View Post
When I load a book in my Kobo Glo many time the display of the book don't correspond with the stylesheet. I have to reboot the Kobo to get all the real styles applied. I don't know why.
That shouldn't happen. Except maybe if you are also sideloading a font. In that case, it is recommended that you restart the device for the font to be completely active. Apart from that I cannot think of any reason for this. Unless an error in the book is triggering a failure in the renderer that needs a reboot to fix. But, I would expect that it would happen the next time you open the book. Unless it requires several other books to be opened first.
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I don't confuse "Collection" in the Kobo and "series" in Calibre. The Kobo Collection is a collection of books (a shelf) under one collection's name. The books in the Collection can have or not a series' name. The Collection can also regroup books with different series' names.
Yes that is correct. A book on the device can be in multiple collections. It is common to create a collection for a series, but you don't have to.
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The correspondence between Calibre and Kobo is not the Collection (which in a way is similar to the Calibre's virtual library) but in the series' name. I want them to be the same.
I don't understand at all what you are saying here. You seem to both saying that you are using series for collections and not using them at the same time.

And if I understand you usage of the word "correspondence", then you are wrong. There is a correspondence between the collection and calibre. The correspondence is done through the columns you set in the driver for for the collection management. For each book on the device that is in the calibre library, the collection columns will be evaluated. This gives a list of collection names. The driver will then create a collection for name in the list and put the book into each of those collections.

There is no real correspondence for the series name. The series name is a piece of metadata for the book. When setting the series name for a book on the device, the "correspondence" is effectively the author and title. Calibre matches books on the device to the books in the library based on the title and author. Then the Kobo Utilities plugin can update the metadata for that book on the device from the metadata for the book in the library. And one of the pieces of metadata that can be set is the series name. And on the device, the series name is displayed in the book lists, in the book details and used in the search. It is used in no other way. The device DOES NOT use the series name for collections.

Also, suggesting that Collections are similar to calibres virtual libraries is completely wrong. Selecting a virtual library limits any further action to the books in the virtual library. Any searches done will only find books in the virtual library. The collection is just a convenient list of books.
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The problem occurs when I change the Series' name in Calibre and use KoboUtilities to modify the series' name in the Kobo (nothing to do with the Collection). The series' name is change in my Kobo but for a time only before it revert to the previous name. This is a new problem. I used the metadata update for years without problem.
I think I need to clarify the sequence of events:
  1. You have a book on the device and it shows "Some series" in the library list under the title. You decide this needs to be changed.
  2. You find the book in your calibre library and change the series to say "The Right Series".
  3. You connect the device to calibre and let the connection jobs run.
  4. You then find and select the book in the calibre library.
  5. You then select the "Update metadata" function of the Kobo Utilities plugin.
  6. You make sure that the series info option is selected and press the OK button.
  7. The message box is displayed saying that changes happened and there were no errors.
  8. You eject the device and wait for it to display the home screen.
  9. You go to the book list and see that the book now has "The Right Series" displayed for the series.
  10. Some time later, you go to the book list and see that the book now has "Some series" displayed for the series.

Is that the right sequence of events? If not, what are you actually doing?

If it is correct, what is happening between the last two steps? Is it minutes, hours, days or longer? Do you power the device off. Do you connect to calibre and do other things? Have you changed the series name in the calibre library for the book back to "Some series"? Did you read the book or otherwise change the reading status?

I am certain that this isn't happening here. But, I also set the series info when I first add the book to the library and rarely change it later. That means that the book goes to the device, and the next time the device, the series info is set and is unlikely to change again. If I do change the series, I check it on the device afterwards. But, if it was to change back some weeks later, I might not notice unless I went looking for a book in that series.
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