[GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities - Page 89

davidfor · 07-25-2017, 02:49 AM

@rjh4242: The most common reason I have seen for books not matching is when they have multiple authors. The way that calibre writes the authors to the metadata is different to how the Kobo device is expecting it. Calibre put each author in a separate "creator" metadata item, but the device only reads the first of these. Then, when calibre does the matching, it only fails because there is only one author.

For books already on the device, pretty much all you can do is match them one at a time. Of course, that's not practical for 1500 books. Or, at least, I'm not going to do it

But, once you have the books matched, you can use this metadata update function of this plugin to set the authors properly on the device.

What you could do is use the metadata plugboard to set the author how the device likes it. From some experimenting, Kobo seems to think multiple authors should look like:

Code:

FN1 LN1, FN2 LN2, FN3 LN3

If you set the author in the metadata plugboard for whichever of the KoboTouch or KoboTouchExtended driver you use, the multiple authors will be set correctly when the device processes the books:

Code:

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

This seems to work on the device and to match with calibre. But, I have only just tried it today with about 10 books. There might be something else wrong.

With this, the simplest thing to do is remove the unmatched books that should have multiple authors and send them to the device again.

There are probably other reasons for the books not to match. But, the above should fix a lot. Once you have you can look at what the other problems are. For me, most of the other mismatches I see are for books I've purchased from Kobo. In these cases, it is the titles as the series information is frequently in the title and that doesn't match what I have in the calibre library.

And Jon: Why not?

DNSB · 07-25-2017, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why do you want 4500 books on the go?

Because I can.

It's my device and I can do what I want with it. (sung to the tune of "It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To").

Terisa de morgan · 07-25-2017, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

Because I can.

It's my device and I can do what I want with it. (sung to the tune of "It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To").

rjh4242 · 07-25-2017, 04:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

@rjh4242: The most common reason I have seen for books not matching is when they have multiple authors.

Thanks, that hadn't occurred to me. I'll do some testing and see if that's the issue.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why do you want 4500 books on the go?

There are lots of reasons, actually. I travel a lot, and I prefer to have my whole library on the device so I don't have to spend lots of time deciding what to add/remove before every trip. I often re-read old favourites on the spur of the moment, or things I randomly find in my library that I haven't read for a while. I regularly get through 2 or 3 books a day, and I get itchy when I don't have anything I feel like reading available. My old Kindle Paperwhite irritated me as I could only get 500 or so books on it before it slowed down, so I had to constantly add and remove things. The Kobo is a new device and I wanted to see what it could do. It's a good backup for my library (which before you ask is already backed up in various places anyway...) And of course, because it's my library and I can if I want to!

JSWolf · 07-25-2017, 05:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

Because I can.

It's my device and I can do what I want with it. (sung to the tune of "It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To").

Just don't put kepub on the memory card or you'll be rescanning the memory card due to a firmware bug.

davidfor · 07-25-2017, 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Just don't put kepub on the memory card or you'll be rescanning the memory card due to a firmware bug.

And for the record of anyone who finds this in the distant future. The bug is in firmware 4.5.9587. Hopefully it will be fixed before the next release.

Terisa de morgan · 07-25-2017, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Just don't put kepub on the memory card or you'll be rescanning the memory card due to a firmware bug.

But only if you shut down you ereader, so keep it sleeping at most

rjh4242 · 07-25-2017, 04:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Just don't put kepub on the memory card or you'll be rescanning the memory card due to a firmware bug.

Thanks for the tip. Is this documented anywhere? When will we know if the next firmware has actually fixed the bug? I'm new to Kobo so hints on what to keep an eye on would be very helpful. Thanks again.

JSWolf · 07-25-2017, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjh4242

Thanks for the tip. Is this documented anywhere? When will we know if the next firmware has actually fixed the bug? I'm new to Kobo so hints on what to keep an eye on would be very helpful. Thanks again.

Yeah, it's documented in this thread a few posts up. The way to know if the next firmware fixes this bug is to install it and test it.

davidfor · 07-26-2017, 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjh4242

Thanks for the tip. Is this documented anywhere? When will we know if the next firmware has actually fixed the bug? I'm new to Kobo so hints on what to keep an eye on would be very helpful. Thanks again.

In the Kobo forum here, whenever new firmware is released, there will be a thread opened to discuss the changes. Problems like this are usually discussed there.

rjh4242 · 07-26-2017, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Yeah, it's documented in this thread a few posts up. The way to know if the next firmware fixes this bug is to install it and test it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

In the Kobo forum here, whenever new firmware is released, there will be a thread opened to discuss the changes. Problems like this are usually discussed there.

Great, thanks. I will keep an eye on this forum from now on.

DNSB · 07-26-2017, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Just don't put kepub on the memory card or you'll be rescanning the memory card due to a firmware bug.

I do most of my reading now on a KA1. What's a memory card?

Kinga76 · 08-02-2017, 12:57 PM

I update my Glo to 4.5.9587 yesterday and I have problems with updating percentage of reading books, it's not changing.Kobo shows the change afrer reading. I didn't change anything in Calibre and KoboUtilities. Any ideas what should I chack?

davidfor · 08-03-2017, 02:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kinga76

I update my Glo to 4.5.9587 yesterday and I have problems with updating percentage of reading books, it's not changing.Kobo shows the change afrer reading. I didn't change anything in Calibre and KoboUtilities. Any ideas what should I chack?

What exactly are you doing? I think you are doing the store of the reading status, but, you could be trying to restore to the device.

If it is the store, are you doing this manually, or using the automatic job? Do you get a message showing that no changes were found? Is calibre showing the book that you have been reading as on the device?

Kinga76 · 08-03-2017, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidfor

If it is the store, are you doing this manually, or using the automatic job? Do you get a message showing that no changes were found? Is calibre showing the book that you have been reading as on the device?

I Had a problem with books on my sd card, so I did a factory reset and get back to FW 4.3.9084 so now Calibre shows books stored on the SD card when I connect my Kobo but doesn't the reading stats.

07-25-2017, 02:49 AM	#1321
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	@rjh4242: The most common reason I have seen for books not matching is when they have multiple authors. The way that calibre writes the authors to the metadata is different to how the Kobo device is expecting it. Calibre put each author in a separate "creator" metadata item, but the device only reads the first of these. Then, when calibre does the matching, it only fails because there is only one author. For books already on the device, pretty much all you can do is match them one at a time. Of course, that's not practical for 1500 books. Or, at least, I'm not going to do it But, once you have the books matched, you can use this metadata update function of this plugin to set the authors properly on the device. What you could do is use the metadata plugboard to set the author how the device likes it. From some experimenting, Kobo seems to think multiple authors should look like: Code: FN1 LN1, FN2 LN2, FN3 LN3 If you set the author in the metadata plugboard for whichever of the KoboTouch or KoboTouchExtended driver you use, the multiple authors will be set correctly when the device processes the books: Code: program: raw_list('authors', ', ') This seems to work on the device and to match with calibre. But, I have only just tried it today with about 10 books. There might be something else wrong. With this, the simplest thing to do is remove the unmatched books that should have multiple authors and send them to the device again. There are probably other reasons for the books not to match. But, the above should fix a lot. Once you have you can look at what the other problems are. For me, most of the other mismatches I see are for books I've purchased from Kobo. In these cases, it is the titles as the series information is frequently in the title and that doesn't match what I have in the calibre library. And Jon: Why not?

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08-02-2017, 12:57 PM	#1333
Kinga76 Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: Kobo Glo	I update my Glo to 4.5.9587 yesterday and I have problems with updating percentage of reading books, it's not changing.Kobo shows the change afrer reading. I didn't change anything in Calibre and KoboUtilities. Any ideas what should I chack?

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