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Old 05-07-2021, 02:41 PM   #76
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To answer the second part of your question about which template takes precedence, it seems to work this way: When you first send a book to the Kobo and disconnect, NickelSeries uses the subtitle (text column as in my previous post) template. When you later reconnect, the template in the driver is used.

How do I know this? (I'm no expert with this stuff.) You can see in my previous attachment that "Pages" is capitalized. But in the driver, using the same format, "pages" is NOT capitalized.

The first time I disconnect after sending a book, I can search for the book on the Kobo and see the subtitle as "xxx Pages. The next time I connect and look at the same book, I see "xxx pages".

I believe this performing exactly as intended. In the end, all I know is -- it works!
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Old 05-07-2021, 03:35 PM   #77
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Hoping for a little help, if possible.

I am trying to make a column built from other columns to use the Count Pages column. I would like 'Pages:' before the count to show and right now I only get the count numbers.

I do pretty well with the tech stuff, but I'm dyslexic and my syntax sux. If I see an example, I can usually modify it to do what I want. I've been trying to read the calibre template pages and it's been difficult. I can only be grateful that calibre is so forgiving, because I probably have some really whacked out code in my setup.

Also, if the metadata/subtitle in the KoboTouch driver is set to {#pages:|Pages: |}, which one takes precedence?

Thanks for such a great feature!!
You don't actually need another column.

My column is named Pages and in the book details view which includes the description, I get Pages: and then the page number.

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Old 05-07-2021, 04:24 PM   #78
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It sounds like you are trying to do what I did here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...2&postcount=64

You need a Text column to pull the number from the page Count column and add the text "Pages".

I used the same template in the driver.
How elegantly simple! I kept trying to put variables in for some reason.
This is what I needed to see!
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To answer the second part of your question about which template takes precedence, it seems to work this way: When you first send a book to the Kobo and disconnect, NickelSeries uses the subtitle (text column as in my previous post) template. When you later reconnect, the template in the driver is used.

How do I know this? (I'm no expert with this stuff.) You can see in my previous attachment that "Pages" is capitalized. But in the driver, using the same format, "pages" is NOT capitalized.

The first time I disconnect after sending a book, I can search for the book on the Kobo and see the subtitle as "xxx Pages. The next time I connect and look at the same book, I see "xxx pages".

I believe this performing exactly as intended. In the end, all I know is -- it works!
That's funny!! My kind of dysfunctional coding!
I try every combo of stuff I run across until I see it appear the way I want it on the reader or in calibre.
I did find an HTML tryit editor online to test, so that helps too.
In the end, just getting it to work is all I can hope for!
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Hello,

Does the length of series’ name has an upper limit?

I have a couple of books from series with really long name. Using NickelSeries and side-loading kepubs on my Elipsa with MacOS Finder, those books (and only those books) don’t have their series' name shown on the library’s page.

Every other books, with shorter series’ name, created using the same tool, side loaded following the same steps have their series correctly shown by the Elipsa.

I conducted some tests and if a series’ name is 31 characters long or more, the Elipsa don’t show those series and they also don’t appear when using the series tab or looking at the information page of each book (other metadata is correctly shown).

If it’s 30 characters long or less, NickelSeries is working great and all the books have their series shown on the library screen, the information page of each book and the corresponding series are created and visible when using the series tab.

The title of each book is created as ‘Name of the series [place of that book in the series]’ (so The Lord of the Ring*1, The Lord of the Ring*2, etc.) and regardless of the length of a series' name, the Elipsa is always showing the title (no limit around 30 characters).
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Old 01-06-2022, 06:35 PM   #81
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Hello,

Does the length of series’ name has an upper limit?

I have a couple of books from series with really long name. Using NickelSeries and side-loading kepubs on my Elipsa with MacOS Finder, those books (and only those books) don’t have their series' name shown on the library’s page.

Every other books, with shorter series’ name, created using the same tool, side loaded following the same steps have their series correctly shown by the Elipsa.

I conducted some tests and if a series’ name is 31 characters long or more, the Elipsa don’t show those series and they also don’t appear when using the series tab or looking at the information page of each book (other metadata is correctly shown).

If it’s 30 characters long or less, NickelSeries is working great and all the books have their series shown on the library screen, the information page of each book and the corresponding series are created and visible when using the series tab.

The title of each book is created as ‘Name of the series [place of that book in the series]’ (so The Lord of the Ring*1, The Lord of the Ring*2, etc.) and regardless of the length of a series' name, the Elipsa is always showing the title (no limit around 30 characters).
Just looking at my devices, the longest series name I can see is 99 characters long. That is on a book from Kobo. The longest sideloaded is 48 characters. Both of these are displaying, but, the names are truncated. The exact length displayed depends on where it is.

I don't use NickelSeries. The series info for sideloaded books is set by calibre. I assume that NickelSeries is not handling the longer series names. Or for some reason they are not in the book when it is put on the device.
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Old 05-25-2022, 07:59 PM   #82
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I guess back in Aug 2021, there was a commit that fixed the parsing of epub3s but the posted release binary never got updated. I can confirm that problematic epub3s that I had now import correctly with this fix, and luckily AppVeyor recently rebuilt it, so before it disappears again, here is the binary for those who were in the same boat.
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This is really a timer-saver, I always hate that when I add a new book but I have to replug Kobo device with Calibre to make the series info of the book to be displayed into the Kobo device.

Just tried it, works very well, thank you.

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It just works for epub/kepub, if it works for series for all files such as cbz, it would be much better.

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Old 07-03-2022, 12:57 PM   #84
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I just installed it too and it's great. No more having to connect twice each time you want to add book(s). Thank you for this.
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Old 07-04-2022, 06:54 AM   #85
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You can use NickelMenu to also prevent having to plug in twice to update metadata.
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I had to refer back to this thread after making some changes to my Clara. It seems to get buried in the forum and I wonder how many people miss it.

This is such a great time saver, and so easy to install. I just wanted to thank geek1011 again for working on NickelSeries and providing it for us!!

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Funny, I just noticed the Old Thread Warning:

This thread is quite old and may contain outdated information. We recommend that you begin a new discussion if you like to talk about a similar topic. Of course, you may also proceed and reply here.

The thread may be old, but NickelSeries works better than when it was new!
But, I'm old too, so I may be biased.

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Old 12-17-2022, 12:10 PM   #88
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Hi,
I'm currently trying to get this to work properly on a newly bought kobo clara 2e running firmware version 4.35.20400.

Sometimes when I plug the device in to my computer via USB it freezes and reboots after a a couple seconds.

Is this a known issue?

I'm trying to use Autoshelf along with this to organize multiple series into a single collection. I don't think this is causing the issue though as I've also encountered it while just using NickelSeries alone when I was troubleshooting.

I also can't get the metadata to parse at all. All I'm doing is copying a couple of folders of books over to the kobo and then disconnecting the USB cable.

I've attached the content.opf file from one of my books that I used for testing.
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Hi,
I'm currently trying to get this to work properly on a newly bought kobo clara 2e running firmware version 4.35.20400.

Sometimes when I plug the device in to my computer via USB it freezes and reboots after a a couple seconds.

Is this a known issue?

I'm trying to use Autoshelf along with this to organize multiple series into a single collection. I don't think this is causing the issue though as I've also encountered it while just using NickelSeries alone when I was troubleshooting.

I also can't get the metadata to parse at all. All I'm doing is copying a couple of folders of books over to the kobo and then disconnecting the USB cable.

I've attached the content.opf file from one of my books that I used for testing.
This might be the reason 4.35 was pulled. I don't believe it is NickelSeries causing it, but I'll confirm later. You could always try uninstalling NickelSeries and seeing if it still fails (your existing metadata will be left as-is).
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This might be the reason 4.35 was pulled. I don't believe it is NickelSeries causing it, but I'll confirm later. You could always try uninstalling NickelSeries and seeing if it still fails (your existing metadata will be left as-is).
What do you mean with pulled? Did kobo "unrelease" this firmware version because it was buggy? Since the initial setup I've kept my reader with wifi off since I prefer the longer battery life and won't get bothered by update notifications.

The issue seems to be caused by NickelSeries. It does not happen when NickelSeries is not installed. In stock configuration or with just Autoshelf installed everything works fine.

If I can assist with any logs I'd be glad to do so. Just note that I'm very new to the kobo system and don't know what logs there are and how to get them ;D
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