Thread: Problem with book summaries
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Old 05-09-2019, 03:13 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by agirlnamedfia View Post
Joined the forum because I have a very specific question I cannot find the answer to: some of the summaries on my Kobo Aura show line breaks and others look perfectly fine. Sometimes there's also an abrupt font change.

I use the Calibre 'Comments' field to add the summaries. In Calibre everything looks fine. When I check the metadata html, the summary is coded in seperate lines, rather than one line, which is what's causing the linebreaks:



When there's a font change, it's also reflected in the html.

I've had this happen with summaries I got via 'download metadata', that I c&p into the box or that were already embedded in the file. The only thing that fixes it is editing the html or manually replacing the space where the line break is in the 'Comments' field.

My question is, does anybody have any idea why this happens and how I can fix it in bulk or prevent it from happening in the future? I have 2000+ books in my library, checking and manually changing all of them would be a huge effort.
I believe this is an issue with the latest Kobo firmware version, version 4.14.12777. It seems to be rendering any line breaks in the comments. Before, they were either ignored or rendered as a space. I hadn't notice it until someone else reported it. I tend to clean the comments of line breaks, so I don't usually see this. And I haven't done enough testing to be completely sure of what is happening.

I haven't seen any issues with fonts changes. Any strangeness there on the device, I can see in calibre and fix there before resending the books.

Also, your image isn't showing. You could post the code within code-tags so that we can see what you have. That might help to prove what the issue is if I am wrong.
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