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Old 02-19-2023, 12:17 PM   #1
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Kobo Newbie needs help!

I've just got a Libra 2 to replace my Kindle, whose battery is suffering from electronic arteriosclerosis, and I'm having a few problems. I use Calibre to manage my books, which I keep as EPUBs and autoconvert to AZW3 on upload, and with the Kindle I had a metadata plugboard to insert the series name & number into book title, since the Kindle doesn't believe in series.

I have set the Kobo Touch driver on Calibre to use "tags" for collections. This works brilliantly; each tag appears as a collection. However my books which are part of a series in Calibre don't show up as such on the Kobo, which tells me I have no series. I have "Set series" checked on the driver's "metadata" tab, btw.

I find the font settings hard to manage (on the Kindle you can do a two-finger stretch and shrink gesture, but on the Kobo you have to click at the top, open the Aa font menu, and play around from there.) Since the first book I looked at was displayed in something approaching 72pt, I had to figure it out urgently!

On some books changing the line spacing setting has no effect -- I seem to be stuck with single spaced lines no matter what. On other books I can change it successfully. I had a look at the stylesheet on one of the problematic books, and tried removing "line-spacing: 1.2" from the body tag rule, but this had no effect either.

I also like to correct typos in books I read, so I use the Calibre rating to specify whether I've read and fully proofed the book. My plugboard added a checkmark to my proofed and corrected books, and I moved them to a "Corrected"collection on the Kindle to keep them out of the main booklist. I tried adding a Collections Template rule on the driver's "collection" tab to create a "#Corrected" collection:

Code:
program: if $rating ==# 5 then list_join(':@:','#Corrected') fi;
which just resulted in a collection called "KOBO Invalid 'List, separator' pairs..." containing all my rating=5 books.

In any case this won't do what I want, since the corrected books will still show up in the main booklist -- but I can at least use a plugboard to add a checkmark to the front of the title, as I did for the Kindle, so at least I can see they've been corrected.

So some questions:
1) How do I get the Kobo to recognise my series?
2) What might be preventing me from changing the line spacing?
3) What should the code above really look like?

I will probably have more questions later... but I'd quite like to sort at least these issues out before I start uploading my entire collection of 5000+ books...

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