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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
Do I have to manuall rename all the books in each series with a leading number?
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No, but you do need to double-check how your selected calibre driver (KoboTouch or KoboTouchExtended) is configured. Open the config widget for whichever driver you're using, go to the 'Metadata, on device & advanced' tab and make sure you have checked the 'Set series information' box.
Once that's done, each time you connect the Clara to calibre, the series metadata on the Clara will be brought in line with that in calibre.
As a new Kobo user an important thing to know about Kobos is that some of the calibre metadata is not transferred during the initial send-to-device process for any given book. Some of it, including Series data, is only sent the
second time (and every time thereafter) you connect to calibre.
davidfor, the Kobo/calibre guru, could explain this better than me, but the initial send-to-device is mainly concerned with physically transferring the book file. When you disconnect this first time the Kobo then does its complex routine of importing the new book into the Kobo's SQLite database (.kobo/KoboReader.sqlite). Some metadata (e.g. author, title) is extracted from the book during the import, but not all. The next connection adds the rest from calibre to the new entry in the Kobo database.
Once you can actually see Series & index in your Kobo My Books list choosing Series from the drop-down Sort menu will sort your books by Series/index.
Whilst you're getting your Series data sorted out, if you want calibre to help you manage your Kobo Collections you might also want to get Collections configured correctly in in the calibre driver.
More info here if you haven't seen it already.
In addition there are even more ways to transfer extra calibre metadata to your Kobo's book list and/or book details page by using the 'Update metadata' option contained in the
calibre Kobo Utilities plugin. I strongly recommend installing this plugin as it has all sorts of useful options for Kobo owners.