Thread: How to add subtitle field in KOBO
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Old 12-31-2021, 10:28 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by MashaT View Post
Adding {#subtitle} to template did the trick. Thank you.
Which correct. And if you wanted to display something else as the subtitle, such as the word count, you can use a template that does that.
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The only thing is that it only displays subtitle where I added them in custom Metadata edit. Where I left them blank, there was no extra blank field added between title and series or allowing extra long titles to continue on 2nd line, which I thought would happen...
Sorry, why would you think that? Firstly, you asked for the subtitle in the field to be put on the device. It did. But, when you didn't actually have anything in the subtitle, it put nothing on the device, because there is nothing to put on the device. And hence the device didn't show anything or reserve space for it. And the wrapping of the long title happens when the space is not taken by other things. Adding a subtitle is more likely to prevent a long title from wrapping.

And please note, the title, subtitle and series info handling is done by Kobo on the device. All the driver does is populate these fields. And it is done in as close to how Kobo populates them for purchased books as I can achieve. If the device did decide a blank subtitle was something that needed to be displayed, it would do that by displaying what looked like an empty line, not by letting the title occupy that space. Because, that is what it was being told to do.
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