How to store two books w same author and title in different languages?

[marp68]

I noticed a thing today. I have a book with the same title by the same author but in different languages, Swedish and English. But when I transferred them, only one showed up. When I then transferred the other again, the first disappeared from the reader in Calibre and on the reader, when I opened it. It turned out that I had to change the book tilte. First I forgot to copy the new name to the Title Sort, and when transferring them again, it didn't work. When noticing my mistake I changed the Title Sort accordingly, and then it worked. Both Swedish and English version now showed up on the reader.

Since I don't like to have an incorrect title for one of them, is there another way to solve this? Does Calibre not also read from the other fields and see that they are two different books, even with the same title and author?

Language: English
Language: Swedish

Tags: Adventure, Adventure - EN
Tags: Adventure, Adventure - SE

My Shelves: Adventure - EN
My Shelves: Adventure - SE

[DNSB]

I don't read many non-English ebooks but one acquaintance of mine enjoys reading translations. What he did was to take my Send to device template and add - {languages} to it so the ebook language is added to the filename of the saved to device copy.

My template is:

Ebooks/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

while their template is:

Ebooks/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title} - {languages} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

The :sublist(0,1,&) forces the use of the first entry in the author/author sort list to keep file paths shorter. I've attached an image showing the path/filename from the template tester. In theory, the {languages} item can return multiple values so a :sublist(0,1,&) might be needed there as well. This does depend on the book language being correctly specified.

[marp68]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I don't read many non-English ebooks but one acquaintance of mine enjoys reading translations. What he did was to take my Send to device template and add - {languages} to it so the ebook language is added to the filename of the saved to device copy.

My template is:

Ebooks/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

while their template is:

Ebooks/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title} - {languages} - {authors:sublist(0,1,&)}

The :sublist(0,1,&) forces the use of the first entry in the author/author sort list to keep file paths shorter. I've attached an image showing the path/filename from the template tester. In theory, the {languages} item can return multiple values so a :sublist(0,1,&) might be needed there as well. This does depend on the book language being correctly specified.

Thanks!
Where do you do this? I only find the Template functions, which looks slightly similar. Should I have the existing template visible and change in it? Could you perhaps describe it more, thanks. Do I need to have the reader connected? Will this apply to all new added books, having the same name or not?

[slm]

When this happened to me, I just used Calibre's metadata editor to add the language each as
Pour ne pas disparaître--In English
Pour ne pas disparaître-French

Low tech, but it seemed to work

[marp68]

Originally Posted by slm

When this happened to me, I just used Calibre's metadata editor to add the language each as
Pour ne pas disparaître--In English
Pour ne pas disparaître-French

Low tech, but it seemed to work

Yes, that's what I did to. Just thought there was another more permanent and elegant solution.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by marp68

Thanks!
Where do you do this? I only find the Template functions, which looks slightly similar. Should I have the existing template visible and change in it? Could you perhaps describe it more, thanks. Do I need to have the reader connected? Will this apply to all new added books, having the same name or not?

If you have KoboUtilities installed, you can open the KoboTouch driver configuration from there. Otherwise, Preferences => Plugins and search for KoboTouch. See the attached image.