Thread: Problems loading new Kobo Clara from Calibre
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Old 12-05-2021, 06:46 AM   #6
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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.)
There has been no change in the behaviour of how collections and series information is handled since setting the series info was added to the KoboTouch driver. Which is at least five years ago and probably something like eight years. Collections can be created when a book is sent to the device, but, the series info can only be set in the database after the book has been imported by the device.
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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.)
The series tab was added at the start if 2020 in firmware 4.20.14601. It is completely separate to the collections. Calibre will populate this when you connect the device again after the books have been imported.

Other than that, @DNSB has probably mentioned all the configuration to check. If it is correct and the collections and series info is still not updating, run calibre in debug mode and post the log for me to look at.
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