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w00dent0p · 01-02-2024, 03:45 AM

Happy New Year all.

Yesterday I ran into an issue with a particular book, side-loaded from Calibre to Kobo Libre 2, where the two authors shown in Calibre were as expected, but the author used by Kobo was the book's English translator.

Can anyone clarify the expected behaviour here? Is the translator name held in EPUB metadata, and is it visible/editable in Calibre? How did the translator name become the original author name on the Kobo? Is it Calibre or KoboTouchExtended or Kobo behaviour?

The only way I found to get Kobo to use the original author, was to run an EPUB to EPUB conversion in Calibre.

Thanks.

01-02-2024, 03:45 AM	#1
w00dent0p Connoisseur Posts: 69 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2021 Location: Berkshire, UK Device: Kobo Libra 2	Translator in Calibre became Author in Kobo Happy New Year all. Yesterday I ran into an issue with a particular book, side-loaded from Calibre to Kobo Libre 2, where the two authors shown in Calibre were as expected, but the author used by Kobo was the book's English translator. Can anyone clarify the expected behaviour here? Is the translator name held in EPUB metadata, and is it visible/editable in Calibre? How did the translator name become the original author name on the Kobo? Is it Calibre or KoboTouchExtended or Kobo behaviour? The only way I found to get Kobo to use the original author, was to run an EPUB to EPUB conversion in Calibre. Thanks.