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Originally Posted by axu2

I have never used a Kobo, but a google search for "cbz author kobo" and similar gives several results that may help. My brief readings indicates that cbz metadata support is not as easy as epub metadata support on kobo.

First of all, thank you so much for responding and taking a look! You are the best! and Aaaa, that makes sense, I spent the day trying out if there's way to use .cbz but keep the metadata from the ComicInfo.xml, but that was a sad effort haha

I ended up just going with EPUB format in the drop down menu like you mentioned, and the resulting .kepub.epub file works great! With the same folder directory from my previous post (Title>Vol>Chapter>page.jpg), I was finally successful in getting a somewhat working ToC for the first time just reflecting the chapter structure! ^u^

Another progress I was able to make is making the Author and Title metadata appears as I wanted. This was just through the KCC Editor function. And I feel much more comfortable now that I have worked out a pipeline workflow for myself. (attached tangible images are my very much proud progress as a noobie lol)

Buttttt....

If you don't mind, I still have trouble trying to get the more complex metadata to work, and I'd love to hear what you think T_T <3

So, I want to have a ToC that I can custom through the ComicInfo.xml but I keep getting an error when I try to convert a CBZ file (with a more extensive comicinfo.xml metadata list) > EPUB

(please see the attached error)

What-I-did:
Folder structure wise, I tried one over-arching folder structure with all the JPEGs files in one folder like:
(Title > all 606 page.jpegs)

I tested zipping that folder up to cbz, ran through KCC + Editor (for Title + Author data), and the resulting kepub works with this simple ComicInfo.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><ComicInfo xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Series>At 25:00, in Akasaka - Volume 1-3</Series>
<Writer>Hiroko Natsuno</Writer>
</ComicInfo>

I ran into the error mentioned above when I try to convert that .cbz to epub with KCC ( T __ T ) I basically tried to replace the ComicInfo.xml in the cbz with a more complex XML that has the TOC I want (using macOS Terminal 7z u filename.cbz ComicInfo.xml command):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><ComicInfo xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Series>At 25:00, in Akasaka - Volume 1-3</Series>
<Writer>Hiroko Natsuno</Writer>
  <Pages>
    <Page Image="0" Bookmark="Volume 01"/>
    <Page Image="1" Bookmark="Scene. 1"/>
    <Page Image="42" Bookmark="Scene. 2"/>
    <Page Image="77" Bookmark="Scene. 3"/>
    <Page Image="113" Bookmark="Scene. 4"/>
    <Page Image="149" Bookmark="Scene. 5"/>
    <Page Image="200" Bookmark="Bonus track: What Happened Next on that Day"/>
    <Page Image="206" Bookmark="Volume 02"/>
    <Page Image="207" Bookmark="Scene. 6"/>
    <Page Image="237" Bookmark="Scene. 7"/>
    <Page Image="273" Bookmark="Scene. 8"/>
    <Page Image="303" Bookmark="Scene. 9"/>
    <Page Image="333" Bookmark="Scene. 10"/>
    <Page Image="361" Bookmark="Scene. 11"/>
    <Page Image="407" Bookmark="Bonud track: CELEBRATION"/>
    <Page Image="412" Bookmark="Volume 03"/>
    <Page Image="413" Bookmark="Scene. 12"/>
    <Page Image="436" Bookmark="Scene. 13"/>
    <Page Image="460" Bookmark="Scene. 14"/>
    <Page Image="486" Bookmark="Scene. 15"/>
    <Page Image="546" Bookmark="Scene. 16"/>
  </Pages>
</ComicInfo>

I thought it might be because of my method to replace the XML file in the cbz; but when I swapped the complex one back to the simple one, I don't see the error and KCC was able to spit out a working KEPUB again.

I also tested converting with a Kindle device + mobi/azw3 selected but still get the same error. Same as Kobo Libra 2 + cbz. It seems like if I have a complex metadata in the root of the archive, it will give me the error.

My ultimate goal is to have Title, Author, ToC, and along with other infos (like Genre, summary, date, etc.) from my previous-post-attached xml, works.

Please let me know your thoughts!