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Guide to Collections Management with calibre (Touch / Glo / Mini /Aura)
PLEASE NOTE: I AM LEAVING THIS THREAD HERE FOR DISCUSSION AND HISTORY.
ALL FUTURE UPDATES WILL BE MADE ON THE MOBILEREAD WIKI Kobo_Shelves_and_Collections ADDITIONALLY PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU THE READER CAN UPDATE THE WIKI ENTRY AS WELL ** NOTE: THIS ALSO APPLIES TO USE OF THE KOBO TOUCH EXTENDED DRIVER *** ALSO SEE THE END OF THIS POST FOR TIPS ON REMOVING DUPLICATED SHELVES With the new Kobo driver introduced with calibre 0.9.1, there has been some confusion over how to automate the management of shelves. The steps I use are the following Driver / calibre Configuration This column is just what I made. If you have an existing column (either custom or builtin that YOU want to use, there is NO need to make one.
If you do as I did and also add series to the driver options, a shelf will be created automatically for each book series, and the books added to that shelf. Configuring calibre's Metadata Management options calibre has three options as to when it updates Metadata on the device. This also affects when the shelves are managed on the Kobo. This option is managed as follows:
Changing Book Titles to include Series Info One probably also wants to change book titles to include Series info. That gets done via what is called a "metadata plugboard". Through these you are able to modify items like the book's title or author as it gets transferred to your device. Goto Preferences | Import/Export | Metaboard plugboards It looks complex, but is not. On the line that reads Add new plugboard do the following
You will find a lot more discussion of these over in the calibre Library Management forum with more examples in this thread. For those people who don't care about syncing of shelves between their device and the cloud (and in turn with other devices), the ability exists to override shelf syncing. Quote:
CLEANING UP DUPLICATE SHELVES Occasionally, due to issues with the Kobo infrastructure, a sync with Kobo will have the unfortunate side-effect of restoring ALL previously deleted shelves (including the possibility of myriads of duplicated shelf names). These are a PAIN (if not impossible) to remove from the device itself, but luckily CAN be handled via calibre. Remember, this ONLY effects the shelves on the device; the definitions within calibre stay intact, and shelves WILL be correctly re-added and populated by calibre when the device is next attached.
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Thankyou PeterT. Your explanation has enabled me to finally get this working properly. Going to save lots of time. Thanks again.
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Thanks Peter! I would have had a hard time figuring out all that on my own. I started adding series first letters and numbers to the titles manually aaages ago and gave up because it's just a hassle. This is exactly what I need!
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Thanks for this.
I can change a books shelf and send it to main memory where it will appear in that shelf, but when sending to Card A the shelf isn't recorded. Is this a known problem? Thanks. |
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Just to check what you have done: - Configure shelves as above - Set the shelf for a book - Connected the device - Sent the book to the main memory - Ejected the device and the book was on the shelf - Deleted the book - Connected the device - Sent the book to the SD card - Ejected the device and the book was not on the shelf Is that what you did? Or something different? |
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Thanks, davidor, for taking the time to look into it.
I tried it again, and the selheves worked when using calibre on the original computer I transferred the first shelves to it a few days ago, but this morning when I tried copying 100 books on various shelves on different computer the shelves didn't work. So it's something to do with using two separate calibres to transfer the books. Should this be a problem? Thanks. |
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It worked for me
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The instructions worked great. Love being able to change book titles to <Series> - <##> - <Title> as they're transferred to the device; makes it significantly easier to browse on the device. Regarding shelves, Calibre seems to be creating shelves with no problem, but won't delete empty ones. Has anyone else had this problem?
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same problem for me, but as I'm to make a factory reset anyway... I'll start with a brand new database and will put my books back "cleanly" on my SD card.
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Let me know how it goes; I'd be interested to see if it fixes it or if there's just a small bug in the (new) driver.
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Thanks.
A quick update: the reason the shelves weren't updated on a different computer was that in the device ![]() |
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As I can't break this here, I need a little debugging help. Could you: - Using your reader, create a shelf but don't put a book on it. - Start calibre and then restart in debugging mode. - Connect your reader and let calibre sync. - Close calibre. - When it closes, a log file will be displayed. Send that to me in a PM or put it somewhere I can download. - Disconnect your reader and check if the shelf is there. To restart calibre in debugging mode, click on the arrow next to the preferences button and select "Restart in debug mode". |
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I'm hoping the problem is the "let calibre sync" bit. There isn't a button, it happens automatically. When calibre detects a USB device it checks if it is a reader it knows about. If it is, calibre does the sync. The sync involves running two background jobs and then calibre updating the library list and menubar. From the log it looks like you stopped calibre at the moment the first background job started. So, can you try again? This time watch the bottom right corner were it says "Jobs". The number after it will go up to 2 when calibre starts syncing the device. When it has finished, it drops back to 0. Then close calibre and see if there is more in the debug log. |
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