Sync books to Kobo with metadata included in the title?

stasiana · 08-20-2025, 02:40 PM

I use the Count Pages and the Goodreads plugins to get (surprise) the number of pages and the goodreads rating into my Calibre library. I connect my Kobo to sync books to the ereader, and I have automatic metadata management enabled.

Is there a way to have Calibre, when it syncs books, to add in this extra metadata into the title (or other field shown on the ereader) so that I can see it? For example, have titles be:

BOOK TITLE (GRRATING, #PAGES)

kovidgoyal · 08-20-2025, 09:04 PM

Use metadata plugboards, that's exactly what they were designed for.

Sirtel · 08-21-2025, 01:57 AM

You can use the subtitle field too, it can be customized in the Kobo driver settings.

08-20-2025, 02:40 PM	#1
stasiana Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2023 Device: Kobo Sage	Sync books to Kobo with metadata included in the title? I use the Count Pages and the Goodreads plugins to get (surprise) the number of pages and the goodreads rating into my Calibre library. I connect my Kobo to sync books to the ereader, and I have automatic metadata management enabled. Is there a way to have Calibre, when it syncs books, to add in this extra metadata into the title (or other field shown on the ereader) so that I can see it? For example, have titles be: BOOK TITLE (GRRATING, #PAGES)

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08-20-2025, 09:04 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,435 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Use metadata plugboards, that's exactly what they were designed for.

08-21-2025, 01:57 AM	#3
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,627 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	You can use the subtitle field too, it can be customized in the Kobo driver settings.