Glo HD - Erroneous collections and counts wrong

[Josieb1]

I have a new Glo HD. I've got calibre set up to send my Bookshelves as Collections. This works perfectly on my H20. I've added 15 books tonight and I have over 3 pages of collections (32 in total) a lot with less books than the collection count.

I've added SyncShelves=false to the config file. I've done a reset and a sync , and I've run the Fix Duplicate Shelves in the Kobo Utilities (no duplicates) so I'm a bit stumped why the collections and the counts are so wrong.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[davidfor]

Are you saying that the collection list says that there are a certain number of books in a collection, but when you open it, there are less books? The only way I can think of for this to happens is if:

- The collection includes books from Kobo
- The books have not been downloaded to the device
- The library settings has "Only show downloaded images" selected.

In this case, the count on the collections list will include the books that haven't been downloaded. But, when you open the collection, only the books actually on the device will be displayed. And calibre won't show these books in the device list or maintain the collections for them unless you select the "Show archived books" option in the driver configuration.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Are you saying that the collection list says that there are a certain number of books in a collection, but when you open it, there are less books? The only way I can think of for this to happens is if:

- The collection includes books from Kobo
- The books have not been downloaded to the device
- The library settings has "Only show downloaded images" selected.

In this case, the count on the collections list will include the books that haven't been downloaded. But, when you open the collection, only the books actually on the device will be displayed. And calibre won't show these books in the device list or maintain the collections for them unless you select the "Show archived books" option in the driver configuration.

Yes that's exactly the problem. I do have "only show downloaded images ticked" and that seems to be the issue. I've now removed that tick and I can see the in cloud books in those collections.

I have always downloaded the kobo books them removed them so I only have sideloaded books on the device (more so I don't get confused tbh). The kobo books go in separate collections starting with zzz.

For example

Without You from kobo will be in the zzz Josie K collection
Without You sideloaded will be in the Contemporary collection.

However on my Glo the Kobo Without You is in both collections. Is this because it's picked up the same name, ignoring the fact that I never added the Kobo Without You into the Contemporary collection? And the bookshelf in Calibre for that book is only Contemporary. The word Kobo is in the tags?

If so I guess this is the case on my H20 too only I've never realised as I have hundreds of books on that reader.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

Yes that's exactly the problem. I do have "only show downloaded images ticked" and that seems to be the issue. I've now removed that tick and I can see the in cloud books in those collections.

I have always downloaded the kobo books them removed them so I only have sideloaded books on the device (more so I don't get confused tbh). The kobo books go in separate collections starting with zzz.

For example

Without You from kobo will be in the zzz Josie K collection
Without You sideloaded will be in the Contemporary collection.

However on my Glo the Kobo Without You is in both collections. Is this because it's picked up the same name, ignoring the fact that I never added the Kobo Without You into the Contemporary collection? And the bookshelf in Calibre for that book is only Contemporary. The word Kobo is in the tags?

If so I guess this is the case on my H20 too only I've never realised as I have hundreds of books on that reader.

The collection management is done if calibre can connect a book in the library to a book on the device. If calibre puts the book on the device, updates a file to keep the connection. If the book gets on the device in some other way, it uses the title and author to match the book to the library. Hence, if you have a kepub and epub version on the device, when the collection management is done, it does it for both.

The simplest fix is probably to manually move the kepubs from the collections. If there are to many books, you could do it via calibre, but it would mean changing the column used for the collections and connecting a couple of times to get the books were you want them.

[Josieb1]

Thank you so much for explaining. Now I know the issue I will probably leave it as it is.

Thanks again