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Old 04-05-2025, 04:08 PM   #24
notesurfer
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Most people seem to prefer to do the collections from calibre. It's easier since you can select multiple books at one time, restore collections easily after a database wipe, etc.. The Get Shelves option was originally (AFAIR) intended to bring shelves created on the device into calibre for future management from there. It's not intended to be run on every connect.
That's fair enough, but the default behavior still shouldn't be to delete all the collections from a user's device. For example, in the Kobo Touch plugin there is a checkbox at the top of the collections tab which enables or disables collection management. If that defaulted to being unchecked, then I would have to manually go in and turn on collections management in Calibre. Even if I did want to manage my collections with Calibre, there's no way for me to know in advance that turning on collection management in Calibre would automatically overwrite/remove all my collections unless I used the Kobo Utilities Get Shelves function first (which seems like quite a stretch for me to intuit as an end-user).
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