Managing/Editing series folders in library

[MashaT]

I need some advice about editing my library series and its contents.


On my Kobo device I sorted my books into series through Calibre library. Now I want to change things around. First, I'd like to rename some of series titles. Second, I'd like to move some books from one series to another. Now, that's pretty easy to do in Calibre library, but will this change be updated on my device when I connect my device and update metadata?

My concern that this would create a duplicate of books on my device - one copy of series named the old way and another the new way. Same for books that were moved - leaving a copy of books in the old series folder and another in new series folder where I moved those books to in Calibre library?

[Karellen]

Which device are you using?

[MashaT]

Originally Posted by Karellen

Which device are you using?

Kobo Libra 2

[theducks]

Why not do a 1 book Test?

AFAIK As long as I don't touch the Author or Title, the same format replaces.

So After your Test book is sent, you need to use 'Update Metadata in Device Library (Kobo Utilities). Note. You may need to do the standard 2nd connect.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by MashaT

On my Kobo device I sorted my books into series through Calibre library. Now I want to change things around. First, I'd like to rename some of series titles. Second, I'd like to move some books from one series to another. Now, that's pretty easy to do in Calibre library, but will this change be updated on my device when I connect my device and update metadata?

Metadata will update, so long as you have Preferences > Sending books to devices set to "Automatic Management."

Originally Posted by MashaT

My concern that this would create a duplicate of books on my device - one copy of series named the old way and another the new way. Same for books that were moved - leaving a copy of books in the old series folder and another in new series folder where I moved those books to in Calibre library?

If you're using the default send-to-device path, you're good; it references title and author.

But if you're using {series} or some variant of that in your send-to-device path, it will create a duplicate.

No getting around this, unfortunately; I once asked davidfor (RIP ) about whether it'd be possible to change a book's paths without it re-importing and his answer was about it's referenced in too many places in the database to change easily.

However, if you have Kobo Utilities, it's a simple matter to pull reading progress into Calibre columns and then restore it back to the new book record. The worst that'll happen is that you may lose a few hours from the Kobo's reading stats after deleting the old book and the book will have a different date in Calibre's device view.

EDIT: Annotations/bookmarks will get lost too. I forgot about those.

[JSWolf]

But will it matter if you have {series} in your send to device template if you don't resend the eBook but instead just resend the metadata? I would think it doesn't matter.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But will it matter if you have {series} in your send to device template if you don't resend the eBook but instead just resend the metadata? I would think it doesn't matter.

If you change the series name, the path will change.