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Old 04-16-2022, 12:51 AM   #19
davidfor
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Originally Posted by LivresInOz View Post
In summary, what would be the simplest way to ensure authors are SEARCHABLE on the Kobo without causing the problem of the book not appearing (as it should) as 'on device' in Calibre
Read my first post. That is the answer to both of these issues. Everything else said has been to try and explain to you why it works and possibly why there are exceptions.

But I will repeat it.

Enter the authors in calibre in the way it supports them best: "John Lennon & Paul McCartney & George Harrison & Ringo Starr"

Create a metadata plugboard for sending books to the Kobo device that sets the author to the template:

Code:
program: raw_list('authors', ', ')
Send some books. The author will appear on the devices as "John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr" (though it might be truncated in the book lists). A search for any part of that should find the books.

It will probably match back to calibre when the device is connected. The matching is not perfect of a number of reasons and multiple authors can be the problem.

This works. I wouldn't suggest it if it didn't. A lot of people are doing this and have reported that it works. If it doesn't work for you then, we would need to do some debugging for why.
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