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davidfor · 09-28-2018, 03:02 AM

I don't see any issues with the metadata or cover. When I sideloaded the book, the metadata was read and the cover is the first page. Kobo is only handling the comments, publisher, title and author. It doesn't read the tags. The ToC didn't work. I think that is because it is an epub3 and there is no NCX to fallback to.

Sideloading as a kepub (rename to use ".kepub.epub" as the extension) and it all works. The kepub renderer handles epub3 better than the RMSDK based renderer used for epubs.

Another difference in the epub and kepub handling is the cover. For epubs, Kobo renders the first page of the book and uses that. For kepubs, it looks for an image with the appropriate properties in the OPF. The yellow image with the word "Cover" has these properties.

If you want to use CBR/CBZ and you use calibre, my Kobo Utilities plugin can set all the metadata correctly once the book has been imported on the device. It will do this for any book format. You send the book to the device, disconnect and let the import happen. Then connect and use the plugin.

09-28-2018, 03:02 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I don't see any issues with the metadata or cover. When I sideloaded the book, the metadata was read and the cover is the first page. Kobo is only handling the comments, publisher, title and author. It doesn't read the tags. The ToC didn't work. I think that is because it is an epub3 and there is no NCX to fallback to. Sideloading as a kepub (rename to use ".kepub.epub" as the extension) and it all works. The kepub renderer handles epub3 better than the RMSDK based renderer used for epubs. Another difference in the epub and kepub handling is the cover. For epubs, Kobo renders the first page of the book and uses that. For kepubs, it looks for an image with the appropriate properties in the OPF. The yellow image with the word "Cover" has these properties. If you want to use CBR/CBZ and you use calibre, my Kobo Utilities plugin can set all the metadata correctly once the book has been imported on the device. It will do this for any book format. You send the book to the device, disconnect and let the import happen. Then connect and use the plugin.