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Old 07-22-2024, 10:47 AM   #1
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Series Number not showing up in metadata

I have many books that are parts of series and have never had an issue until one particular series. David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series of which I have the first six books.

When I added them to Calibre I assigned them all "Series: Honor Harrington" and then a number from 1-6 like I usually do. And they show up correctly in the library with series name and number.

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But when moving the books to my devices, KOReader only displayed the series metadata for the first book correctly as "Honor Harrington #1" and all the rest were only displaying "Honor Harrington" without a series number. (BTW...I save each book to disk as EPUB file only into a folder on my NAS and then copy to devices from there. No opf files are used.)

I selected all six books in Calibre and cleared all series metadata using the bulk metadata editing feature then went into each book and, starting fresh, re-entered series name and numbers and downloaded all the books to KOReader and selected each book and hit "Refresh book metadata info from cache" but still no series numbers.

I then used the "Edit book" feature in Calibre to look at the html code of the metadata.opf file and saw the first book had
Code:
 <meta name="calibre:series" content="Honor Harrington"/>
    <meta name="calibre:series_index" content="1.0"/>
but all the other books were missing the second line "calibre:series_index" so I copied that line into the five other books with appropriate series number and now it shows up in KOReader.

Anyone know why Calibre was not writing the series number into those books even though it was showing up in the metadata in the GUI?
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