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Luapsnave · 10-01-2020, 08:01 AM

Hello,

I've looked through a number of threads and guides but I can't seem to make head of tail of what I need to do to work with collections.

The problem is that I have my KOBO set up using the KOBO Extended plugin and my books now transfer over correctly and I can store series correctly. However, this has taken me some time to get right and I've ended up having to reload my books into the KOBO which means that they're all showing as unread. I need to change over 300 books to read and I know that I can do it manually on the KOBO but if I ever have to reload any book again I'm going to lose that information. Also, it takes forever to do that amount of books one at a time.

When I review the KOBO on the device tab in Calibre, I see the column called Collections and in there I see two options, Im_Reading and Read. I don't know how to get that information into Calibre and, once it's in there, how to edit to mark them all as Read before exporting the metadata back to the KOBO.

Is there a simple guide (and it really has to be simple!) anywhere that can help me do this please? Alternatively is there an easier way to accomplish this that I don't know about? Any wisdom gratefully received. Thanks!

10-01-2020, 08:01 AM	#1
Luapsnave Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2020 Device: Kobo Aura 1	Import and Edit KOBO Collections Hello, I've looked through a number of threads and guides but I can't seem to make head of tail of what I need to do to work with collections. The problem is that I have my KOBO set up using the KOBO Extended plugin and my books now transfer over correctly and I can store series correctly. However, this has taken me some time to get right and I've ended up having to reload my books into the KOBO which means that they're all showing as unread. I need to change over 300 books to read and I know that I can do it manually on the KOBO but if I ever have to reload any book again I'm going to lose that information. Also, it takes forever to do that amount of books one at a time. When I review the KOBO on the device tab in Calibre, I see the column called Collections and in there I see two options, Im_Reading and Read. I don't know how to get that information into Calibre and, once it's in there, how to edit to mark them all as Read before exporting the metadata back to the KOBO. Is there a simple guide (and it really has to be simple!) anywhere that can help me do this please? Alternatively is there an easier way to accomplish this that I don't know about? Any wisdom gratefully received. Thanks!