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Originally Posted by robowolf
Hi! Thank you for this plugin, I use it for managing collections and I love it. I have a question that I have tried to search the answer for, but I did not find it:
So I have the custom Collections column, I set up in Calibre and it syncs with my Kobo. My Kobo now has my custom collections; this is awesome.
When I read in Kobo, however, I move books between collections. For example, on my Kobo, I create a new collection, "Delete"; this is for books I read but do not care for, so I will delete them in Calibre later.
However, when I sync back into Calibre, all changes I made in Kobo have been erased; the Calibre set-up overwrites my changes.
Is there something I need to do so that when I sync my Kobo and Calibre, the changes I made in Kobo sync onto Calibre?
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In the KoboTouch and KoboTouchExtended driver configuration, see the “Metadata, on device & advanced” tab, in particular the “Update metadata on the device” option at the top of the page. This setting controls whether Calibre will update your Kobo with new metadata automatically as soon as Calibre detects that it has been connected. If you disable it, then you should be able to see the modified state of the shelves on your device in the Device view. Note that when you change metadata in your Calibre library you will have to remember to send those updates to the books on your device manually.
E.g., series information only works once a book has already been added to the device library, which is why people install NickelSeries or reconnect their device to Calibre after sending sideloaded books for the first time – so that the KoboTouch[Extended] driver will automatically update the Series metadata when the device reconnects. This would then need to be done manually. (Or you can use NickelSeries. But if you altered something, e.g. the Subtitle or Collection of a book, in Calibre after first sending it, you would need to tell Calibre to send the new metadata.)