Sage Need some help with series organization please

MLoured · 04-24-2026, 10:52 AM

Hello everyone. English is not my first language so I hope I can make myself understood while explaining the problems I have been having in the last few months with my Kobo Sage. For some months now my Sage has only been showing problems. It started with the battery, which only lasts 1 day even with Wi-Fi, light, etc. turned off. It is not a charging issue, I have been doing upgrades since the Glo and never had a single problem. I can even tolerate the battery issue, but the biggest problem is really the Series shelf. I simply cannot add new books in a way that the metadata stays correct. In Calibre everything is perfect, as it has always been, but when transferring to the Sage nothing stays correct and it is always different. Sometimes it creates empty shelves, sometimes it simply omits information about the series and other times the books appear labeled only with the name. All of this without me changing anything, just by deleting and reloading the books. I have already tried a thousand and one “tricks”, procedures, and honestly, if I did not have more than 8,000 books I would have already changed everything to Series+number+title+author, or something like that. Does anyone have any tips?

Sirtel · 04-24-2026, 11:31 AM

For the series information to appear, you'll need to connect your Kobo to calibre for the second time after transferring the books, ejecting and disconnecting. And don't use Collections/Shelves for series, that information is outdated. Calibre will set the series based on the series column.

Do you have

1) metadata management set to Automatic in Preferences -> Sending books to devices?
2) the following fields checked in the Kobo driver settings: Update metadata on the device and Set series information?

04-24-2026, 10:52 AM	#1
MLoured Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2021 Device: Kobo sage	Need some help with series organization please Hello everyone. English is not my first language so I hope I can make myself understood while explaining the problems I have been having in the last few months with my Kobo Sage. For some months now my Sage has only been showing problems. It started with the battery, which only lasts 1 day even with Wi-Fi, light, etc. turned off. It is not a charging issue, I have been doing upgrades since the Glo and never had a single problem. I can even tolerate the battery issue, but the biggest problem is really the Series shelf. I simply cannot add new books in a way that the metadata stays correct. In Calibre everything is perfect, as it has always been, but when transferring to the Sage nothing stays correct and it is always different. Sometimes it creates empty shelves, sometimes it simply omits information about the series and other times the books appear labeled only with the name. All of this without me changing anything, just by deleting and reloading the books. I have already tried a thousand and one “tricks”, procedures, and honestly, if I did not have more than 8,000 books I would have already changed everything to Series+number+title+author, or something like that. Does anyone have any tips?

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04-24-2026, 11:31 AM	#2
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 15,156 Karma: 247594217 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	For the series information to appear, you'll need to connect your Kobo to calibre for the second time after transferring the books, ejecting and disconnecting. And don't use Collections/Shelves for series, that information is outdated. Calibre will set the series based on the series column. Do you have 1) metadata management set to Automatic in Preferences -> Sending books to devices? 2) the following fields checked in the Kobo driver settings: Update metadata on the device and Set series information?

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