Thread: Do downloaded covers count as metadate
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Old 05-27-2018, 08:37 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Nascarfan1972 View Post
I have a Kobo Aura (original) that will not sync all of my books (3163 books), as kepub, although I have a 32gb sandisk micro SD card in the external card reader.
You have bought 3163 books from Kobo? Wow.

When there are problems like this, normally I would suggest using the repair account function. But, that would take a long time with that number of books. And with the 500+ books that I have, it seems to stop downloading the books after a while. After that, using "Download All" in the library lists a few times gets the rest of the books.
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As a result of this I have downloaded all of my books using adobe 3. However my question is that whilst I can use calibre to correct the metadata to show the correct author sort, title and series. I also want to download covers for those books that do not have covers showing in calibre.
Sideloading books from calibre doesn't touch the downloaded books. The only affects it can have is on the collections and series information. If you download the book from Kobo, and sideload, it will mean you have two copies of the book on the device and the firmware does not connect them in any way.

For the metadata changes and covers, I assume you are using my Kobo Utilities plugin. Any changes you do with on one device will have no affect on the other devices. The only problem you might find is that after a sync, the metadata and covers for downloaded books will revert to whatever Kobo has. It's been a while since I played with this, and I don't know the rules used. I am sure they will get updated at some point in the future, but, I don't know when or what has to happen to trigger it.
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To complicate matters I also want to use calibre to send the metadata to my other kobo ereaders which I have upgraded the internal sd cards to 32gb.

So if I download covers in calibre for my epubs I am transferring onto my kobo aura devices, will this screw up the metadata I want to transfer to my other kobo's, that have the books synced direct from kobo?
It shouldn't. For sideloaded books and other changes, the devices are pretty much independent. The only thing I can think of that will sync is the collections. Any collections calibre creates on one device will be synced to the other and created. If the collections changed for the downloaded books, they will be synced as well.
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