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Originally Posted by Teejoo

Hi all,
After using a kindle for years and not liking the extra glass layer on the new one I bought the Kobo Libra 2. I use Calibre to organise and transfer my books to the reader.
Already patched the Home screen to make the covers bigger and get rid of the third row. Also discovered how to get the Series info filles by plugging the reader in again. So far so good.

There are some other thinks I couldn't find a working solution:

• Can’t get rid of the quick tour on the home screen. This is simply stupid and takes a lot of space.

The simplest way to get rid of this: Use the device. The home screen adapts to you usage. The top row can show up to four open books. If you only have two open, the top-right gets used for something else, such as a collection or an author. Same goes for the middle-right. Once you start using the device a bit, what is there will change.

• When I sent a book with multiple authors using '&' , Only the first author is visibele. So Preston & Child is displayed as Preston. When you check the content on the device with Calibre it says Preston & Child. When I use the option ‘updating metadata in device library’ in the KoboUtilities it corrects this and you see Preston & Child.. I'm almost sure it worked correct the first few times I did some test transfers, but have no ideau what I did that changed this behavioir.

I don't know where the belief that only ampersands can be used to separate authors came from. On the front of my paper books, I see commas used as much as anything else. I mean, commas are used in lists, and it is a list of authors, so it makes sense to me. If there

But, the issue here is not that Kobo expects a comma between the authors. The problem is really that is only reading the first dc:identifier tag in the OPF. And calibre puts each author in a separate tag. As someone has vaguely suggested, you can use a metadata plugboard to solve this. I use:

program: raw_list('authors', ', ')

And put that in the author field.

• Covers are sometimes scaled way too small. Don’t know how to correct this. It seems a bit random and the covers resolutions are big enough. I read multiple topics about this but found no real solution. On my Kindles this was never an issue. In Calibre they are also all full size.

What does the first page look like when you open the book? For some formats, including epub, Kobo renders the start of the book and takes the first page as the cover. That means the cover image generated will look like whatever the first page of the book looks like. If that puts the cover image as a tiny image in the top left corner surrounded by whitespace, then that is what the device will generate as the cover to be shown elsewhere.

You can fix this by fixing the code in the book. Or use the option in the driver to send the covers when sending the books to the device. Or you can update the cover for any book using the Kobo Utilities plugin.