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Originally Posted by Katja_hbg
The question is where to enter that to get it on the Kobo reader.
... I tried metadataplugboard for series and KoboUtility update series but it is still uppercase.
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I've run into this confusion before too, when scratching my head why a metadata plugboard doesn't want to work. The answer is that the KoboTouch(Extended) drivers modify some fields on their own. Check the “Metadata, on device & advanced” tab of the driver configuration. There is an option there to provide a template to control the subtitle.
Considering your issues with multiple authors, I thought I might contribute my own metadata plugboard to correctly manage multiple authors. When I am browsing my Kobo and open My Books -> Authors, I don't want to see entries with multiple authors; I want each author to be listed on their own. By default, Calibre uses ampersands (&) to separate multiple authors, while the Kobo expects them to be separated with commas. Therefore, in order to prevent multiple authors appearing as “Person One & Person Two”, and to also prevent spurious authors like “Jr.” from appearing on the Kobo, I do the following:
Code:
program: list_join(', ', re($authors, ',', '、'), '&')
This replaces commas within author names with an “IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA”, as Unicode calls it, before replacing ampersands with comma-space as expected by the Kobo.
In this way, an Authors field of, e.g., “Walter M. Miller, Jr. & N. K. Jemisin” in Calibre gets translated into: “Walter M. Miller、 Jr., N. K. Jemisin” on the Kobo. Two authors.
Note that when browsing the Authors view you can
already choose to browse by first or last name without any metadata trickery. (So I'm not exactly sure what problem you are trying to solve— I have never needed underscores in my metadata to sort author names properly. The only exception to this is that Mr. Miller, Jr., above, would get sorted as having a last name of “Jr.”, which is a tricky and rare enough edge case that I haven't put more thought into it yet.)