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Originally Posted by DNSB
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.
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The newer firmware has the series tab (along with books, authors and collection), but on my older device, I only see books, authors and collections. That was never a problem since whenever I added books, a collection was created automatically using the name of the series.
Unfortunately, since I didn't need to do any device configuration for my older reader, I'd never been down into the configuration menu and didn't realize it existed. (There are a *lot* of menus in Calibre.) So I have no notes on what settings I had before but it was set to "Manual" when I went in tonight so I changed it to automatic. The "Set series" box was already checked.
Plugging the Kobo in/out a few times tonight, trying to understand those options, I do seem to be experiencing what you mentioned - my books only get added to a "series" category the next time I connect to calibre, not when I'm pushing the ePub over to the device. I'm now wondering if I could have managed not to notice this behavior for an entire year of regular usage... It seems unlikely but of course isn't impossible. Whenever I added something to read immediately, it would have been at the top of the "recents" sort so I wouldn't need to go anywhere else.
Do you know if there is any guidance for eReader configuration in a centralized location somewhere? When I did my first reader, I started with a search of the Calibre documention, of course, couldn't find anything, and eventually tracked down the plugboard information in an article on a different website. But that article had nothing else relating to device set-up. Everything worked after that, so I just heaved a sigh of relief and started reading.