Nickelseries problem - showing Series under My Books/Series tab on Libra 2

[Ned]

Sorry, I solved what I'd done wrong!!!!


Hello
On my Libra 2 I installed Nickelseries (can't remember which version) to make my books show up under the My Books/Series tab on the device.
It worked fine. (Firmware 4.35.20400 patched plus Nickelclock) and Series are listed under that tab.

I am now setting up a new Libra 2 for my grandson and aim for it to work identically with mine.

Firmware, patches and nickelclock installed same as my original Libra 2 and worked fine.

Series is being sent by Calibre and shows up under the book details button that you click on to open the book:

e.g. The Abduction
Theodore Boon - 2
John Grisham

But the MyBooks/Series tab tells me You Have No Series Yet.

I have run Nickelseries V3 and nothing changed
I just ran Nickelseries V1 and it is still showing me You Have No Series Yet
The Kobo said it was updating each time, so it must have reacted somehow to the KoboRoot.tgz file.

Can anyone suggest what I might have missed or done wrong please and how to get Series showing under the tab?

Thank you

Edit:

I discovered by reading the instructions that you must put the books on AFTER installing Nickelseries and it doesn't work on those already on the Kobo.
So deleting from device and re-adding makes it work.
All sorted, so a mod can delete this [post, or leave it as a lesson to others not reading the instructions properly. !!

[xyclonei]

If you would like to update series information post transferring of the books, you could try running seriesmeta.

[Ned]

Originally Posted by xyclonei

If you would like to update series information post transferring of the books, you could try running seriesmeta.

Thank you

[Aleron Ives]

NickelSeries and seriesmeta don't work unless you edit every book you buy with Calibre, right? If the book metadata coming from the Kobo store doesn't include the necessary series information by default, then how does the series tab work for people who sync their books directly from Kobo?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

NickelSeries and seriesmeta don't work unless you edit every book you buy with Calibre, right? If the book metadata coming from the Kobo store doesn't include the necessary series information by default, then how does the series tab work for people who sync their books directly from Kobo?

Books purchased from Kobo and synced normally get the series information from Kobo if the series information is present on Kobo. In the few cases where it is not included, I can generate a dummy book in calibre matching title and author, update it's metadata and then update the metadata on my ereader. This does require that you have Update purchased books checked in the KoboTouch/KoboTouchExtended driver on the Metadata, on device & advanced tab.

You can take a look at the content.opf file for ePub 3 ebooks and see if the following lines are there:

<meta property="belongs-to-collection" id="id-6">Angels and Demons</meta>
<meta refines="#id-6" property="collection-type">series</meta>
<meta refines="#id-6" property="group-position">3</meta>

[Aleron Ives]

Ah, so I guess it depends on the book and whether the publisher bothered to add series information to the OPF metadata. Thanks.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

Ah, so I guess it depends on the book and whether the publisher bothered to add series information to the OPF metadata. Thanks.

Pretty much yes. Some ebooks have good layout, metadata, etc. while others seem to have been created by an interning student who has never read an ebook much less created one.

[JSWolf]

Monkeys could create eBooks better then the Indian companies the publishers outsource to,

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by DNSB

others seem to have been created by an interning student who has never read an ebook much less created one.

Yes, I've encounted such a book before and undoubtedly will again.

[Ned]

Yes I add my own series information in Calibre and sent to Kobo from there.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Monkeys could create eBooks better then the Indian companies the publishers outsource to,

Jon: Please don't kiss and tell. (I thought we were more important than that!)