Thread: Trying to find a compact Android tablet to use as an ereader
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Old 02-14-2018, 12:30 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by robilarocn View Post
These are books that I have converted via calibre, not books I bought through the Kobo ecosystem. The built in kobo reading app does not capture series data.

See my pic below in moonreader.
The problem is that the series information is not part of the Dublin Core metadata, and hence not part of the epub 2 standard. That means most ereaders and apps do not support it. Any app that does display it would have to be reading the series info from the calibre specific metadata. Getting support for non-standard metadata in a device is up to the development team. And it would be understandable if they decided not to.

But, the Kobo devices do support series info. Books downloaded from their server will populate the series info. But, it isn't read from sideloaded books. The KoboTouch driver in calibre can populate it for sideloaded books. That isn't ideal, but it is the way it works.
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