This may not be deep magic for many readers, but it fixed a small annoyance of mine with trying to work through a book series on the e-reader without having to go to Wikipedia or whatever to figure out what’s next.ĭepending on how you get your books, and how good the publisher is about metadata, the metadata may already be set for you. 2: Configure Kobo Aura H2O dialogĪfter doing that and re-copying the ebooks over to the Kobo, it recognized the series name and order, so it is easy to see what’s book 1, book 2, etc. Specifically I set to “Update metadata on the device” and to set series information and update metadata on the book details page. So I went into the Configure dialog for the device itself and tweaked the “Metadata, on device & advanced” tab a bit. I’m using an older Kobo reader (the Aura H20 v1) and setting the series metadata didn’t seem to be enough for the Kobo to recognize the new information, though. Using Calibre, I edit the book’s metadata and set the series and series number, as shown in this figure. So you finish Ringworld and then you are ready to start the next book, but is it The Ringworld Engineers or The Ringworld Throne or Ringworld’s Children? Here’s how to make that obvious on your ebook reader. If you are reading, say, Larry Niven’s Ringworld series, it’s not clear from book titles what order the series is in. So you will have a kepub on the Aura and still have an ePub or whatever format on your hard drive.Many book series do not make it abundantly clear what order the series is in by book title. When you connect your Kobo to Calibre and send books to the device, KoboTouchExtended will automagically convert as it sends. I don't use Kobo Utilities.Īs for converting to kepub, you don't need to. The extended driver needs to be disabled if you don't want its function. But, other than the KoboTouchExtended driver, if they are installed, they don't do anything unless you use them. And my Kobo Utilities has a lot of functions, but, if nothing interests you, it isn't needed. And you may as well add the KepubInput plugin. In which case you also need the kepub metadata reader and writer plugins. Or you can convert to kepub with the KepubOutput plugin. You can enable or disable the KoboTouchExtended driver depending on whether you want read particular books in different format. It can also update the metadata if you change it. The built-in KoboTouch driver will handle getting books to the device fine. That will work well enough to see if the differences (but, you can't save bookmarks/annotations and the reading position is at the start of the chapter). Or simply rename an epub on the device to have the extension ".kepub.epub". f you want to try a kepub, get something free from the Kobo store. Other plugins that are used lightly used (ScambleEbook, for example) tend to get installed as needed and then removed after use. And of course, the deDRM and obok plugins. Otherwise, I use the Quality Check, ModifyEPUB and KindleUnpack plugins. There are some odd differences between their behaviour in such items as font handling. Having both versions also helps when I want to compare the behaviour of the two renderers. This makes the KoboTouchExtended driver a non-starter for me. Handy for testing and the few ebooks I have where I want to be able to zoom images. kepub so it can co-exist with the original epub in my calibre library). For me, davidfor's KoboUtilities plugin and KoboTouch driver are necessities.įor the few kepubs I'm using, I've been using geek1011's kepubify with the -calibre option (saves the output file as. Any other suggestions? Should I convert my books now, or wait until I get the thing and convert as I copy over to the device? I guess this allows for epubs to be converted to kepub? Looks like this will allow me to update metadata in books, and work with collections inside of Calibre. What are the must have plugins to use Calibre with Kobo effectively? I don't know what that means, but I am super happy that I got it a day before that happened.) While it is on its way to me, I thought I should prepare by getting some of my books converted to the KEPUB format, and got the right plug-ins installed in Calibre. After allowing commenters her twist my arm and convince me I ordered a Libra H2O from the Kobo website (oddly, it appears to be out of stock now.
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