Thread: New Kobo series feature and calibre
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Old 03-27-2020, 08:03 PM   #14
davidfor
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Originally Posted by tiltowait View Post
It’s an extra step even on top of the double-connect. I can’t simply have the books waiting for me in the cloud; I have to download them before syncing with Calibre, or there will be two series with identical names.

I think the solution might just be to archive all of my Kobo purchases and manage everything through Calibre. I could even fix some of the series metadata errors in Kobo’s database (such as the Wheel of Time series).
The reason for this is that the series list is not built from the series name. Kobo uses an internal identifier that groups the books together as a series. That is used on their devices and in their store. The driver in calibre has to replicate this somehow. If it finds a series name for a book from Kobo that matches the series name in the calibre library, it uses the id to group the books. If there is no match, then it uses the series name itself. This does meant that if you sideload a book in a series and then buy a book in the same series, they will appear to be in two different series. But, the next time you connect the device to calibre, it should be fixed.
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