Thread: Problems loading new Kobo Clara from Calibre
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Old 12-04-2021, 11:57 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Marg1780 View Post
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.)
You can also search by series if that helps and there is a Series display tab in Books.

Check that in Preferences => Sending books to devices, that Metadata Management is set to Automatic Management so metadata will be sent each time your Kobo is connected. In the Device configuration, on the Metadata, on device & advanced tab, check that Set series information is checked. I also have Update Metadata on Book Details pages checked. On that page, you can also check Attempt to support newer firmware which will suppress the original error message you saw. If there are going to be any issues with that option, you will likely read about on MobileRead before the firmware hits general availability.
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