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Marg1780 · 12-04-2021, 10:43 PM

Hi David, Thanks for replying, though I'm confused by your comment.

Is this some very recent change in Calibre's behavior? And if so, do I need to do anything additionally to activate it, or is it just sufficient to connect the Clara a second time? (Which would be a minor, but usable pain.)

I've been using Calibre with my older Clara for a year, and haven't seen (or at least haven't noticed) this behavior. I push the books over to the device, eject it, let it sort out the new data and collections/series are available to use. I've created a few special-purpose collections manually and added books to them myself, but newly added books have always found their own ways into an auto-generated collection using their series name as defined in the Calibre plug-board definition for the Kobo driver. I see with the new Clara version they have separate tabs for "collections" and "series" but on the older one, they use the term "collection" for both automatic and manual groupings.

I agree that they aren't an absolute necessity since anything can be found by author, but especially for shared worlds or multi-author series, they're a great convenience. (And a great help to my aging and flaky memory. Who wrote the third book in the "Black Trillium" set?... um... er - let me just go find it through its "collection" page.)

12-04-2021, 10:43 PM	#4
Marg1780 Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo Clara	Hi David, Thanks for replying, though I'm confused by your comment. Is this some very recent change in Calibre's behavior? And if so, do I need to do anything additionally to activate it, or is it just sufficient to connect the Clara a second time? (Which would be a minor, but usable pain.) I've been using Calibre with my older Clara for a year, and haven't seen (or at least haven't noticed) this behavior. I push the books over to the device, eject it, let it sort out the new data and collections/series are available to use. I've created a few special-purpose collections manually and added books to them myself, but newly added books have always found their own ways into an auto-generated collection using their series name as defined in the Calibre plug-board definition for the Kobo driver. I see with the new Clara version they have separate tabs for "collections" and "series" but on the older one, they use the term "collection" for both automatic and manual groupings. I agree that they aren't an absolute necessity since anything can be found by author, but especially for shared worlds or multi-author series, they're a great convenience. (And a great help to my aging and flaky memory. Who wrote the third book in the "Black Trillium" set?... um... er - let me just go find it through its "collection" page.)