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Old 08-08-2013, 07:43 AM   #16
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Another non-Calibre user here, and I agree with rem736's comments. I'm sure Calibre's a fine tool, for those who are content for it to assimilate their book files and make them part of the collective. It doesn't appeal to me. As rem736 says, it's a matter of personal taste (and file management preferences).

My concern at this point would be if Kobo were to start assuming people will all use Calibre as a de facto tool for eReader access, and develop a reliance on it into the Kobo firmware.

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I was hoping that I had just missed the page in the user manual for the Arc but I guess I will have to learn something new (Calibre). Thanks.
If you don't want to have to learn Calibre, icspots, then you might like to consider Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/), a free epub editing tool. For your need here, there's nothing to learn, and it doesn't alter your system to enable it on your PC, since it's self-contained. Open your epub in Sigil, press F8 to open the metadata editing dialog, change the book title to suit and simply save the file. That's what I do with my book series.

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Old 08-08-2013, 11:21 AM   #17
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One note is that you have to send the books, disconnect, let the books be processed, connect, send the books again (or use davidfor's KoboUtilities to send the metadata), disconnect and let any processing happen before the series data will show up.

Basically, the first processing cycle adds the books to the database so the metadata can be added in the second cycle.

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Ah ha! that's why I didn't see anything the first time. Many thanks!

Will I have to do a double send every time a add a new book to the reader ;-(

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Old 08-08-2013, 12:06 PM   #18
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I do the same, but only in the output file by using a Plugboard. This leaves the Calibre master file with an unchanged title and the series info in only the series field.

The string in the title field of my Plugboard for save to device is:
{series} {series_index:0>2s} {title}
So this changes the name of the file on the Kobo, but does that affect the name of the book in the Library view on the Kobo?

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Old 08-08-2013, 02:05 PM   #19
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Ah ha! that's why I didn't see anything the first time. Many thanks!

Will I have to do a double send every time a add a new book to the reader ;-(
No; with metadata management set to Auto it's sufficient just to reattach the Glo to calibre and not transfer any material on the second attachment.
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Old 08-09-2013, 03:31 AM   #20
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No; with metadata management set to Auto it's sufficient just to reattach the Glo to calibre and not transfer any material on the second attachment.
Er...how do I set meta management to Auto? Couldn't see it in the driver preferences.

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Old 08-09-2013, 03:36 AM   #21
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Er...how do I set meta management to Auto? Couldn't see it in the driver preferences.

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Calibre Preferences>Sending Books to device
it's the first option

I think PeterT was referring to this
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Calibre Preferences>Sending Books to device
it's the first option

I think PeterT was referring to this
Exactly!
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Old 03-23-2014, 10:45 AM   #23
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If your reader is a Touch, Glo, Mini, or Aura HD, you can do the following to see the series name and number under the book title on the reader:
  1. Use the Series and Number metadata fields in Calibre to set the series name and number in the series for each book
  2. Go to Preferences / Change Calibre Behaviour, under Advanced select Plugins, expand Device interface plugins, scroll down and select the KoboTouch plugin, and click on Customize plugin
  3. Ensure that "Read metadata from files on device" and "Set series information" are checked and click OK
  4. Delete the books from your reader and re-send them from Calibre

Now, when you view book titles on your reader in the library or shelves, between book title and author name you will see <series name> - <number>. This works for me with Aura HD. I don't have a Touch, Glo, or Mini to test with, but they use the same device interface plugin so I would assume you can set the series information on them in the same way.
This only seems to work for the books I have bought from Kobo, not for the other 400 or so ...
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This only seems to work for the books I have bought from Kobo, not for the other 400 or so ...
It works fine for me. Make sure your metadata management is set to Automatic mode and that after you have sent the books to the device you disconnect the reader (with proper ejection of course), let it process the new books, then re-connect the reader to Calibre. Calibre updates the series information only after the books have been processed by the device.
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