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Old 03-06-2020, 06:58 PM   #92
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Originally Posted by rosalita View Post
I love the new series feature except for one thing: Apparently Kobo has been wildly inconsistent in how they label books from the same series over the years. For example, I have a series of books written by Charles Todd that feature a Scotland Yard detective, Ian Rutledge. Kobo shows me some of these books in a series called "Inspector Ian Rutledge" and others in a series called "Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries." There are other series that are the same way, which is very frustrating.

Is there any sort of communication path with Kobo to send them corrections? Or a way to correct these myself? I am a Calibre user but because I have an old Mac that can't run anything past OS Sierra, I can't use the latest version of it. And I have not imported my Kobo books into Calibre in the past.
As @Quoth said, it is probably the publishers fault. They supply the metadata to Kobo, and Kobo display it. Kobo might not be allowed to fix it. It will depend on the contracts they have.

In this case, there is a problem. I looked up the series in the Kobo store. The books come from at least two different publishers. It looks like "Inspector Ian Rutledge" comes from Random House and "Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries" comes from William Morris.

Having said that, there is a feedback link on the Kobo store. Report the problem through that. I don't know if they will be able to change anything. But, one thing they might be able to change is the id used for the series. The Series tab is based on an internal id, not the series name. The two series names above appear to have different ids (click on the series name in the store and look at the URL). They might merge the ids so that it will appear as one series, though with different series names depending on the book. In the Series tab, I think it will use the series name from the book with the lowest series number.
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