Thread: How can I more reliably show bks "on device"? (Kobo Forma)
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Old 04-04-2022, 09:16 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by LivresInOz View Post
Actually I found this help page and it doesnt look so hard.

Only questions are:
- Device: for my FORMA do i choose Kobo or Kobotouchextended? [Q1]
- Destination: Authors? Or Author_sort? [Q2]
For the driver, you choose whichever you are using. Both work with all Kobo eredears starting with the Touch. The difference is that the KoboTouchExtended driver transforms epubs to kepubs when they are being sent to the device. Check which of the drivers you have configured to use then setup the plugboard for it. Or, you could create the plugboard for "any device" and it will work with both, but will also with other devices.

If you don't know, then when the device is connected, right-click the device button and choose "Configure this device". The active driver configuration dialog will be displayed. If it has a tab called "Extended", then it is the KoboTouchExtended .

As I said above, put it in "authors". The Kobo devices do not look at where the author_sort is stored.
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Q3. Do I have to do anything else?


ADDITIONAL Q if you see fit:

Q4. Does anything appear in the main interface to show me that ive fixed the problem as you suggested - for example the authors appear differently in the column?

Q5. What is this actually doing?
When a book is sent outside of calibre (by send-to-device or save-to-disk or other methods) the metadata in the book is updated. The metadata plugboard is used to make changes to that metadata. It does not affect what is in the calibre library, only the copy of the book created outside of calibre. You would see the changes by editing the copy on the device. Or when the device imports it and shows the details in the UI. On the device, you will see the multiple authors as "FN1 LN1, FN2 LN2".

When you connect the device, the matching should work better and more books will show with the green tick indicating they are matched. If you go to the device list, the same will be the case. Here, when you look, multiple authors will show as "FN1 LN1 & FN2 LN2" because that is how calibre shows them.

There will still be unmatched books. That usually comes down to a difference in the title or author. For example, I have a copy of Jim Butcher's "Small Favor". That didn't match. It was because I had bought the book from Kobo's Australian store and the publisher uses the UK spelling of "Favour" but, when I added the book to calibre, the metadata downloaded used the US spelling. Hence the book didn't automatically match. For simplicity, I changed the spelling in calibre so the match would happen.
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