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Originally Posted by Cleophauna
I got my Clara yesterday and spent a lot of time browsing around the neighborhood. I got a few books transferred via Calibre, but am a little confused about some things.
1. Are shelves the same as collections?
2. Which driver should I be using in Calibre thekobotouch or thekobotouchextended?
3. Am I understanding correctly that to get calibre to create collections/shelves on the clara automatically I have to create custom columns in calibre?
I created collections based on the series of a group of books, but, I did that on the reader. Also, is there a way to remove books from the main list if they're listed in a collection?
I've given myself a headache reading and re-reading posts here and help files in calibre.
BTW I love this reader, so clear, easy to read on and light! Glad my Aluratek finally gave out. LOL
Thanks
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1. Shelves and collections are the same thing.
2. Use the Kobo Touch driver if you are sending epubs or have converted your epubs to kepubs using kepubify or other utility. You will have both kepub and epub in your calibre library (more space needed). Use the Kobo Touch Extended driver if you want to convert epub to kepub on the fly as they are sent to your Kobo ereader.
3. You only need a single custom column to create collections. That column can have multiple entries. See the Wiki entry
Kobo Shelves and Collections for more on this.
Personally, I no longer use collections since I find that searching on author, title and series works for me. When I last used collections, I ended up with over 800 collections based on series and 240 columns based on my custom selections. At that time, the firmware on my Aura HD (2013-2014 time frame) was unhappy with large numbers of collections and I finally gave up using them. That was a few years back and calibre now show that I have 2053 series though many of those series contain a single book.
4. No, you can't remove a book from the library view -- collections are another view into the library much like authors (think of authors as automatically created collections if that helps).