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Originally Posted by Lavender
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?
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For my setup, you would lose publisher, word and page counts, estimated reading time, and quite a few other bits of metadata. For me, sending the books, safely ejecting, tapping on NickelMenu => USB connect (I do have auto USB gadget enabled) and letting the second connect update the metadata. Metadata would be updated on the next connection to calibre assuming Metadata Management is set to Automatic since the database entry the metadata is stored in was created by the import process.
And please note that as the author of the plugboard said, "next time you connect the Kobo to calibre all the Author data in the Kobo database should auto-magically be adjusted according to the new KOBOTOUCH/Authors plugboard." If you have metadata management set to auto, this would happen without the plugboard.
I've attached sample image of a book with multiple authors sent to my Sage with the plugboard in use after sending and importing and after a second connect. The first send still shows only one author since a Kobo ereader uses the first author in the dc:creator list as the author while the second connect updates the author list to all 10 authors.
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<dc:creator id="id-1">Tamsyn Muir</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-2">Jennifer Giesbrecht</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-3">Vylar Kaftan</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-4">Emily Tesh</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-5">Kerstin Hall</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-6">C. S. E. Cooney</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-7">Katharine Duckett</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-8">Scotto Moore</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-9">Priya Sharma</dc:creator>
<dc:creator id="id-10">Lina Rather</dc:creator>