Thread: Since Kobo update, series information doesn't transfer to device
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Old 11-10-2021, 10:22 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Liudprand View Post
Thanks for this.

I'd love for Calibre to manage my collections - if I could be sure that it won't wipe out hours of work I did without so much as a warning dialogue!

"Edit: you should not have written "series" in the collections column field, if that's what you did. Kobo readers handle the series info separately. That bit in the wiki is out of date."

OK. So are there instructions for this somewhere that *aren't* out of date?
You mean apart from my post? That did tell you what to do. And it also pointed to a longer guide which does have some problems but I did explicitly state which bits to skip.

The collection management did do what you told it to do. You told it to use the series column as the source for collections. The driver will then move all books on the device that are in the library to collections with the series name. And remove them from any collections that do not match those names. This is the designed behaviour and prompting for that change is not a sensible thing to do. Potentially there a hundreds of changes and prompting for each, or prompting once for all is not sensible. Or even possible from where the changes are being made.

There is a method to fetch collections from the device to a column in calibre. This is part of the Kobo Utilities plugin. The function is there and described in the help. It was not been mentioned as there was no previous indication from you that this was something you want.

The collection management is simple. Decide what column in calibre contains what you want to create collections from, and put that in the driver configuration. Then connect the device. Any column can be used, but, some make more sense than others (title would be silly, date modified would as well, published date is probably not good, but published year might be). And the collection management will always change the collections the books are in to match what the collection columns have for values. But, there is an option to ignore specifically named collections on the device and not make changes to them.

As to your H2O not having this problem, that is not true. This is identical for all Kobo devices. For the collection management and metadata updating, here is no distinction between devices for any of the Kobo devices. Only the cover size generated by driver, if configured, is different between the devices. If you have seen different behaviour between the devices, then it is something you have done. And as you had not configured collections before, then you would not have had these problems. If it was something else, then state what it is so we can sort out what is going on.
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