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Old 03-23-2020, 08:54 AM   #1987
thepopmonster
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
The driver definitely should be updating the series info if the option is turned on. Don't forget that for new books, it is done on the next connection. And the Kobo Utilities plugin cannot do anything until the book has been imported on the device.

But, the most common reason for the metadata not being updated automatically is that the "Metadata managment" option on the "Sending books to devices" page of the preferences is not set to automatic.
Thanks, that was exactly the problem - metadata was set to "only on send" in the Calibre preferences (probably from a while back when I didn't have a template set at all and it took minutes whenever I connected my android devices).

Looks like I need to set aside some time to reload.

For general reference, this seems to work fairly well across both android and Kobo if you remove periods/ellipses from the series names (e.g. March... -> March to the Stars)

{author_sort:.1}/{author_sort}{series:| - |}/{series_index:0>5.2f} {title}
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