Thread: Kobo Firmware 4.12.12111
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Old 01-28-2019, 08:44 AM   #246
davidfor
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader View Post
That fails to explain why publisher & series info is missing from newly added books.
The information later appearing seems to be at some random time after other books are added or card swapped. A reset rarely fixes it. Re-opening the book doesn't fix it. The book info has a long fake ISBN till the publisher appears at that position later.
Have you paid any attention to what is going on? Do you ever bother to read any manuals or details about the tools that you work? Everything above has been discussed here plenty of times before.

Firstly, the device DOES NOT read the series information. It doesn't do this because there is no standard for it in the DC metadata. No standard, no way to read it.

It doesn't read the publishing details. That is a Kobo decision. Why, I don't know why.

The ISBN is a bug. The device reads the first dc:identifier element and assumes it is the ISBN.

Now, as I said before the KoboTouch driver cheats. It does a direct database update of these details. It cannot update the database if the book hasn't already been imported by the device into the database. That means it does these updates the next time you connect the device. So, put a book on the device, no series info, possibly incorrect ISBN, no publishing details when you look at it. Reconnect and let calibre do its stuff, all that gets updated. Fix/update the details in calibre, reconnect and the metadata gets updated again.

All of this is well documented here.
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If it's not a firmware bug, then something is wrong somewhere. We seem to have quite different ideas about what is reasonable behaviour for software and/or gadgets, whether it's really a bug, intended or stupidity.
Yes we do. But, at least I try to work out what is actually happening before jumping to conclusions. And I do understand that not all people have the same opinion on how things work.
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