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Originally Posted by davidfor
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.
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Do stop with the stupid insults and defence of Kobo.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
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.
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It obviously does. It offers to sort a collection by series. It displays it in two places eventually.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
It doesn't read the publishing details. That is a Kobo decision. Why, I don't know why.
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It does display it, but as to how it decides to eventually, I don't know. First line in the tab
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Originally Posted by davidfor
The ISBN is a bug. The device reads the first dc:identifier element and assumes it is the ISBN.
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Yes the FW is full of bugs. The fake ISBN eventually gets replaced by language or Publisher followed by language.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
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.
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No, that isn't exactly what happens.
You can be helpful, but too often you just defend kobo and rubbish what people say as ill-informed. Unless you work for Kobo most of what you say about it's working as intended, or stuff not supported is purely your opinion.
The Kobo GUI and FW obviously does support Series and Publisher in some erratic fashion. It actually sometimes works and sorts by Series. The series info and publisher is displayed and labelled as such. But not in any consistent fashion.
Erratic and inconsistent behaviour is a bug. No matter what explanation there is for it.