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Originally Posted by DNSB
If you have all the authors in the Authors field in calibre separated by &s, that information will be sent to your Kobo on the second connect without needing a plugboard. When the book is sent to the device, only the first entry in the .opf file authors list will be used. That's the way I've been using it for years.
This did require me to add sublisting to the send to device template to keep file paths from going wild when you stuff multiple authors into the filename and path.
The send to device template I use is:
Ebooks/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}
Ebooks is a directory in the root of my Kobo's
{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)} simply creates or use a directory based on the first entry in the author-sort entry.
{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)} generates a file name based on the book title and the first entry in the authors list.
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Tbh that’s all way over my head. I just want to be able to skip the whole need for a second usb connection to get all the metadata to show up on my device. I tested a the plugboard config detailed in the link on my last post this morning with a new epub file with multiple authors, and after adding it to my kobo I found that the two authors are shown in the authors tabs just like calibre shows them. I didn’t have to connect a second time for the authors to be listed.
If I continue using this plugboard config am I likely to miss any other parts of metadata if I skip the second connection from now on?