NickelSeries: Integrated EPUB/KEPUB series metadata support

[Lavender]

Originally Posted by DNSB

For my setup, you would lose publisher, word and page counts, estimated reading time, and quite a few other bits of metadata. For me, sending the books, safely ejecting, tapping on NickelMenu => USB connect (I do have auto USB gadget enabled) and letting the second connect update the metadata. Metadata would be updated on the next connection to calibre assuming Metadata Management is set to Automatic since the database entry the metadata is stored in was created by the import process.

And please note that as the author of the plugboard said, "next time you connect the Kobo to calibre all the Author data in the Kobo database should auto-magically be adjusted according to the new KOBOTOUCH/Authors plugboard." If you have metadata management set to auto, this would happen without the plugboard.

I've attached sample image of a book with multiple authors sent to my Sage with the plugboard in use after sending and importing and after a second connect. The first send still shows only one author since a Kobo ereader uses the first author in the dc:creator list as the author while the second connect updates the author list to all 10 authors.

    <dc:creator id="id-1">Tamsyn Muir</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-2">Jennifer Giesbrecht</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-3">Vylar Kaftan</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-4">Emily Tesh</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-5">Kerstin Hall</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-6">C. S. E. Cooney</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-7">Katharine Duckett</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-8">Scotto Moore</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-9">Priya Sharma</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-10">Lina Rather</dc:creator>

Thank you for explaining this. What is it exactly that prevents the kobo devices from taking in all the metadata in one sync? Is it because it has to build its database with the new files before it can assign metadata to them or something? It's a pretty janky experience having to double sync. I opted to install NickelMenu just for the USB reconnect option as well because of this.

[DNSB]

The import routine keeps it simple by only using the first entry when the book is being imported and the database entry is being created. Given that much of the other metadata needs to have that database entry before you can add them to the database, the second connect is pretty much required. Quite a bit of the data does not have Dublin Core metadata to even store it in a minimal .opf file. You can check Dublin Core™ Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description for more information. Also note that not all DC metadata is required. For an ePub3 file, title, identifier, language and modified are required so in theory, you don't even need to have the creator name available.

[abe]

you say that the uninstall file has to be put "in the KOBOeReader partition ", do you mean in the root of the device, or in .kobo folder instead ?

I ask because I put it in the root (koboereader) and it didnt seem to uninstall nickelseries, as my metadata get updated without having to unplug and replug, unlike before

[PeterT]

From checking the source code it looks for ns_uninstall in the root directory of the mounted Kobo.

It also mentions that a reboot is required.

[DNSB]

To quote Patrick Gaskin's website:

How do I uninstall NickelSeries?
Create a file named ns_uninstall (without any extension) in the KOBOeReader partition and reboot.