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Originally Posted by davidfor
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:
Code:
program: raw_list('authors', ', ')
And put that in the author field. |
It's more that I used ampersands because I have it on all my books and it's strange that a device that's made for books can't handle this. I tested the comma, but I didn't like how it looks.
However, when I changed it back to Preston & Child and updated the metadata using KoboUtilities it updates the name to Preston & Child!... See attachment. Since this didn't work before maybe because I changed the name in Calibre?
When I import another book it says Preston again, after updating the metadata from that book that book it says Preston & Child again.
If I change the name to Preston - Child or Preston / Child the name is already correct after the initial transfer.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
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.
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When you open the book on the e-reader it also isn't full size, also on the screen saver. In Calibre it is, just like on my Kindle. But in some rare cases when I re-import some books it suddenly is full size.
Updating the covers using the Utilities plugin has no effect.
"Or use the option in the driver to send the covers when sending the books to the device".
How can I do this?