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Originally Posted by Sirtel
... I edit the metadata and formatting of all my ebooks. With Kobos, there's also the additional reason of managing the metadata and collections automatically, without having to do any manual sorting on the device.
Then again, most ereader users probably prefer direct downloads via wifi and don't use Calibre at all. To each their own.
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I actually use Calibre all the time, but only for checking and modifying my ebooks to back them up, along with some complimentary programs of my own to assist with that and editing metadata (adding missing blurb and series info and case changes etc) and replacing cover images where needed or desired.
I also appropriate the Tags field of the OPF file for author names, which is especially useful where multiple authors exist for a Various authors ebook (editor names also included). In some cases it will include a series name if more than one author participates (i.e. Robin Hood or James Bond or Sherlock Homes, etc). Any other existing tags are removed and in some cases relocated to Comments, but generally I've found Tags to be a very much abused genre type field, so I replace the lot and forego genre entirely. I also limit multiple author names in the Creator field, to just be co-author names or Various.
I strongly dislike too many author names in the Author columns (and as Creators in the OPF file), and an author name as a Tag is very handy, as you may be aware, to click on and have every ebook with that author be listed (grouped) for viewing ... Various author collections included.
I'm not aware of a method to automatically assign an ebook to a collection when transferring to my Kobo ereader.