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Originally Posted by davidfor
No, you do not need to do that. The Kobo devices actually understand series info and treats it as such. The series name and index are stored in the database. They are displayed in the list and used for sorting. If you do the above, then the device will treat each book as a being in a separate series. I think the only reason to fiddle with the series name is if you want to adjust if for some reason. Length or putting "The" on the end are probably the main reasons. But, I'm pretty sure the device does the latter when sorting.
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Ok, I have removed that plugboard rule. It didn't work anyway.
In Calibre all my series are exactly as I want them. Correct Series, and books in the correct canonical order, regardless of what the publishing date is. Series were transferring across ok, but the book order number was not. It was just blank.
I haven't played with the ereader since my post above as got a bit busy, but maybe the problem I am having is touched on in your next statement.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
The only issue with this is that the device does not read the series metadata from the book when importing them. You need to connect to calibre again to update the metadata for this to happen. After that connection, the series information will be displayed. There is also some hidden stuff happening for the series list and sorting there. But, the driver takes care of that.
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Maybe this was the problem. I had to reconnect for the metadata to transfer and update the order numbers. I'll try that again tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
No, using Series for collections is not very useful now. Personally, I never found them that useful as I just ended up with several hundred collections with one or two books in them.
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I was getting confused with Series and Collections. I didn't realise they were two separate things in the ereader.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
After writing that, I wondered if it was possible to still have the series info but not have the series in the Series tab. And it is (with a little database manipulation).
The reason for the test is that one of the things I think that is missing from the series tab, is being able to filter the list. I'd like to be able to hide all series with only one book. Or some other small number of books. I can sort by number of books, but, if I am looking for something, then alphabetical sorting works better for me. Not showing the one- or two-book series would be useful. Of course, it would be even better to filter based on the number of unread books, but, Kobo would have to do that.
What I am thinking of doing is to add an option to the driver to set the minimum number of books in a series for the values used by the Series tab to be set. The displayed series info will still be set, so it will show in the book lists and should sort correctly (which I have to test) and will be searchable. It won't affect purchased books as Kobo sets those details. And if the series is a mix of purchased and sideloaded, I will probably set the full series info for the sideloaded books as well no matter what the setting.
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Sounds reasonable. Personally I want to see the Series regardless of how many books there are. That way I know at a glance whether I can read the series straight away or I need to purchase the remaining books. Though I can do that on Calibre anyway by checking my stub entries.
What I would like, and I'll look how it is done once I finished Series, is to remove the duplication of having books listed in the Series screen, but then they are also listed in "Books". I would rather have series books in Series, and non-series books in Books.
I suppose Collections would do that for me.