[kangxi]

I have just bought a Kobo Clara bw so please excuse the naivety of my questions - I'm just getting grips with it. I use it with Calibre.

Calibre shows me that the date of publication is included in the metadata. But I can't sort on publication date on the Clara, and there's nothing on sorting in the settings. How can I edit the sort settings or otherwise get the sort on pub date option?

I haven't downloaded the Kobo app. Is it necessary or useful? I have no intention of listening to audio books, or treating the device as a notepad, and I want to use Calibre as my library manager.

I have been told on this blog that the Kobo device can be synchronised to any changes made to the library (eg editing metadata). How do I set up this synchronisation and run it? (I assume the library copy is the master as calibre won't let me access the metadata of books actually on the Kobo).

I assume Calibre knows which device I am connecting to it. Can I edit any device settings from Calibre? The built-in settings in the device don't seem to offer much flexibility (eg sorting, synchronisation).