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shentar · 10-25-2019, 04:28 AM

Thanks, davidfor. I did search around a bit but there were a lot of very early posts and eventually I managed to get thoroughly confused. I remember there was one reference to metadata plugboards but I have never used them so I didn't pursue that for fear of confusing myself further.

Now that I understand the reason for the results I am getting I should be able to sort things out. I some years ago I set up calibre to handle my fairly large collection of ebooks exactly the way I wanted and since then have basically only added books to it, so I am very rusty with the cleverer tools available. If I can't persuade the Move to Device tool to do the metadata reformatting that I want I may simply create a small calibre library mirroring the contents of the kobo. That would also make up for the fact that so far I have been unable to persuade the kobo desktop to show me the contents of my reader.

10-25-2019, 04:28 AM	#3
shentar Member Posts: 22 Karma: 510 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: kindle	Thanks, davidfor. I did search around a bit but there were a lot of very early posts and eventually I managed to get thoroughly confused. I remember there was one reference to metadata plugboards but I have never used them so I didn't pursue that for fear of confusing myself further. Now that I understand the reason for the results I am getting I should be able to sort things out. I some years ago I set up calibre to handle my fairly large collection of ebooks exactly the way I wanted and since then have basically only added books to it, so I am very rusty with the cleverer tools available. If I can't persuade the Move to Device tool to do the metadata reformatting that I want I may simply create a small calibre library mirroring the contents of the kobo. That would also make up for the fact that so far I have been unable to persuade the kobo desktop to show me the contents of my reader.