Thread: Log my series from Calibre to my KOBO aura H2O
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Old 05-09-2020, 02:37 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Clem2605 View Post
For my first problem, I found what was wrong: It seems that I was a little too quick to post since I just didn't search enough: I thought that just asking Calibre to put my books would be enough (which it is, one time out of two), but I also have to upload the metadata (I never did it before because I never modify the metadata of a book who already is on my e-reader, why uploading something that doesn't need uploading?) of the books already on my e-reader to be sure that everything is all-right before disconnecting the device.
Unfortunately, for the series info, it takes two steps. When you send the book to the device, calibre will make sure it has the latest metadata in it. And you can fiddle with some of that using metadata plugboards. When you eject the device, it imports the books. It reads the metadata from the books and puts it in a database for later use. Unfortunately, it doesn't read everything. And series info is one of the things it doesn't read. This is reasonable as the metadata standards used for epub2 does not include series info.

The second step is to connect the device after the books have been imported. The KoboTouch/KoboTouchExtended driver can update the database on the device with the current metadata. This includes the series info and the other metadata the device doesn't import. Plus, it can sync any changes without the book being resent. It does this each time the device is connected. It is reasonably fast as it only does an update if there is a difference between the library and the device.

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For my second problem, I thought too that it was a problem of a character not being what it should be or something like that, which is why the first thing I did was to delete the series name for every book of the series and rewriting it. But it didn't work.

From what I did (unsuccessfully) to correct the problem, I'd say that there is something in the book's metadata that make the sorting tool take the series' name differently (Like for the author or title sorting):
In the majority of cases, it sort le series like that "Pink Cat, A", but in a few cases, it sort it like that "A Pink Cat. But I don't know how, or where, to fix it...
That does sound like a language setting somewhere.

Also, if you need to fiddle with the series for a set of books, I recommend the Manage Series plugin. It's very handy for updating the series and the order of books.
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