Aura E2 Numbers within Series Collection part 2

[BeccaAnn]

Not sure if this is a Kobo thing or Calibre, but I think it's Kobo since this has just occurred since the recent update.
I load my books through Calibre and since the recent update my series numbers are missing from my collections once it is loaded to the Kobo.
This first pic shows the Collection name followed by the series number under the title.
The second pic is of books added today missing this.

Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this? I loaded a lot of books today.

[pghaworth]

it's still fine on the Clara so maybe this is specific to the Aura E2. I am on the latest update and the latest Calibre version.

[retro]

Originally Posted by BeccaAnn

Not sure if this is a Kobo thing or Calibre, but I think it's Kobo since this has just occurred since the recent update.
I load my books through Calibre and since the recent update my series numbers are missing from my collections once it is loaded to the Kobo.
This first pic shows the Collection name followed by the series number under the title.
The second pic is of books added today missing this.

Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this? I loaded a lot of books today.

First you load the books, disconnect and the Clara has to process them, then when you connect the second time, it loads the additional info from calibre, like the series.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by BeccaAnn

This first pic shows the Collection name followed by the series number under the title.
The second pic is of books added today missing this.

Does anybody have any ideas how to fix this? I loaded a lot of books today.

After you added the books and they were imported by your Kobo, did you reconnect to calibre? The database entries needed to store series, etc. are added during the import.

[BeccaAnn]

Yes, I have reconnected to Calibre; still no change. I'm missing my series numbers.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by BeccaAnn

Yes, I have reconnected to Calibre; still no change. I'm missing my series numbers.

Is your metadata update set to automatic so it updates when when you connect? You should see a "Send metadata to device" task in the jobs list. Check the "Metadata on device and advanced tag" in the KoboTouch/KoboTouchExtended driver. I've attached an image of the settings I use.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Is your metadata update set to automatic so it updates when when you connect? You should see a "Send metadata to device" task in the jobs list. Check the "Metadata on device and advanced tag" in the KoboTouch/KoboTouchExtended driver. I've attached an image of the settings I use.

And the other popular problem is that "Metadata management" on the "Sending books to device" page of the preferences is not set to the automatic option.

[BeccaAnn]

Did as suggested and updated the metadata management option. Most of my books are now in series order; however, one specific collection still refuses to sort in series order. I have even deleted the problem books from the reader and re-imported them. I then deleted the entire collection from the reader and added them back. Now the whole collection is missing the series numbers.
What should I do now? I'm thinking of deleting the collection, then adding one book per day till the collection is complete (yikes, 36 days of this).

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by BeccaAnn

Did as suggested and updated the metadata management option. Most of my books are now in series order; however, one specific collection still refuses to sort in series order. I have even deleted the problem books from the reader and re-imported them. I then deleted the entire collection from the reader and added them back. Now the whole collection is missing the series numbers.
What should I do now? I'm thinking of deleting the collection, then adding one book per day till the collection is complete (yikes, 36 days of this).

So, the books have series info in calibre, you sent the books to the device, disconnected, the device imported the books, you connected again, let calibre do it's stuff and disconnected again, but, no series info on the device? On the second connection, did calibre show the book as on the device? If not, that is why the series info was not updated. Calibre needs to match what is in the library with what is on the device to do the metadata update.

You can fix using the device list when the device is connected. Right click on a book that hasn't matched and use the option to match the book. Then use the search to find the correct book, select it and press the OK button. Once you have done this, right-click the device button and choose the option to "Update cached metadata on device". This will store the details for matching the book on the device in a file that calibre uses. This allows the book to be matched the next time it is connected. And when that is done, the driver should update the metadata in the devices database.

But, the most common reason for books not to be automatically matched is because they have more than one author. Unfortunately, the device only reads the first author. Calibre writes the authors in separate tags in the metadata. This the correct thing to do, but, Kobo have decided to only use the first author found.

To solve this, you can use a metadata plugboard to have calibre write the authors into the metadata of the book in a way that Kobo will parse correctly to get multiple authors. The template I recommend using is:

program: raw_list('authors', ', ')

Create a metadata plugin for the KoboTouch driver and set the author to this template.