Thank you for your input, both of you.
I am looking forward to a future custom category for collections.
And to clarify: naturally I didn't expect the book to be in a collection once I'd disabled the options in the plugin. I did this in order to test the behavior, and hopefully minimize the risk of messing up my existing collections. I mentioned it in case someone reading the thread was wondering what happened.
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
I finally have a handle on what happened to you.
The metadata wasn't invisible it was created from the books that were on the device. Even though you used the Sony software to wipe the collections you never updated the metadata in each book. - - -
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Ohhh, that makes sense!
Great explanation.
I'm still curious about how the behavior of Calibre chnaged with 0.7.x - I've always used the tags field for organizing my collections via Calibre. And have never before encountered a case where it *overwrote* the existing collection (=tag) on the 505 without me changing the tag in Calibre library first and sending to device (or changing on the 505 via Calibre).
As far as I understand the explanation of the plugin behavior, the collections are created from specified locations (tag, series) if the book does *not* have a collection on the reader already.
All my books on the 505 were in collections, and had corresponding tags in the Calibre library, they'd been added via Calibre (0.6.5x). SO it shouldn't have overwritten the collections from the metadata, IMO. It did this immediately upon detecting the 505.
I guess it's the existing metadata for the books on teh 505, like dwanthny posted above. But it is still weird. Especially since this was a 505 where I'd just added the books via Calibre 0.6.5x a few days earlier after a format, after fixing the tags in Clibre before sending to device. So it shuld all have been set?
Oh well, things happen.