Thread: Problems loading new Kobo Clara from Calibre
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Old 12-06-2021, 02:10 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Marg1780 View Post
Ah, okay, that explains why I couldn't track it down. Until I started the chain of events that came with buying a second reader, I was totally happy with the functionality I had so I think I'll not add something else new, since it's noncritical.
It isn't necessary and until you see something that it does that you want to use, you can forget about it.
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At this point, I seem to have things going okay on the new reader (now that I understand more about the updating chain of events), but still am not seeing the autogeneration of a collection (ie series) name for new books on the older reader, even if I plug into/unplug from Calibre a second (or third) time... It behaves like there might be a backwards compatibility issue between my updated Calibre and my not-updated Kobo, but the way things are going, I'm probably just hitting another pothole in lack of knowledge.
Collections should be created the same for both devices if they have the same books on them. The collection management is done for the books on the device that calibre can match to books in the library. If you are creating collections for series and one of the devices does not have any books in a particular series on it, then the collection will not be created. Similarly, if for some reason, calibre is not matching the books on the device and those in the library properly, then, again, it won't create the collections.

There is one trap with multiple devices and collections. Kobo syncs the collections between devices. But, it doesn't sync anything about sideloaded books. That means if you create a collection on one device with a sideloaded book in it, after syncing both devices, the collection will appear on the other device. But, it will be empty. The trap is that if you have the option "Delete empty bookshelves" on in the driver, the collection will get deleted from the device with the empty collection. When you sync, both devices, it get deleted from the other device, but, then calibre creates it again. And it goes around and around. For this reason, I turn that option off. My collections are fairly generic, so they don't tend to be empty.
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