Hi all hope everyone's well & Ok
I'm a newbie to the the forum, just read through all 126 pages on the kobo utility plugin and picked up some really handy tips! Thanks & kudos for all your hard work davidfor!
I'm a complete novice at code etc and a lot of the things discussed went right over my head, I must confess lol
I did manage to get the store/restore current bookmark setting working - only due to Peter's novice step by step guide post #56 (thanks PeterT!). I briefly hit a wall getting the function to run automatically (manual worked ok), then I realised there was a drop down and I needed to select any device (under customise plug in - I only use the 1 device) . After this working like a dream
The other function I really want to get up and running is get shelves (aka collections) from device. I'm struggling a bit with this and hope you may have some insight into what I'm doing wrong.
Just for a bit of background/context - I use the shelves/collections to group books into genres and sub genres, so if I fancy reading a particular (sub)genre I can browse the applicable collection to make my selection. I used to use the tags column but these aren't searchable on the device. Several months ago I stumbled on the other thread on how to set up and manage shelves/collections. I was able to get these up and running on calibre and could send them from calibre to the device. However it would be much easier if I could add the books to the appropriate collections on the device then export this into calibre using the get shelves from device function (it is easier to identify the (sub) genres I want to categorise the book as whilst reading/read rather than trying to predetermine from the synopsis). Hope this makes sense
I set up a new column (kobo collections) and used get shelves from device > all books on device. I initially thought this was successful but the only records imported were those I had set up and sent via calibre in the first instance. The books I added to collections on the device do not import. I did a test batch and get the below pop up, even though these books have been added to collections and when I go into the collections on the device the books are present/listed.
Update summary
Books processed=7
Books with shelves=0
Books without shelves=7
Colour me confused
Do you happen to have any suggestions? Many thanks in advance