I have noticed a few inconsistencies in the metadata for kepub books bought from Kobo. For sideloaded books it is no problem to correct the metadata in Calibre before sending the book to the reader, but I don't think I can do that for kepubs.
One example is the format of the author's name. I bought the first two books in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Although both books ae by the same publisher, on my Glo the first book shows the author as "Erikson, Steven" but the second book shows as "Steven Erikson".
This causes an issue when browsing or searching by author: although the books are both correctly sorted by the author's last name, they are treated as being by different authors, so all books by "Erikson, Steven" are listed ahead of any books by "Steven Erikson". It also affects the predictive search function because selecting the completion "Steven Erikson" will not show books by "Erikson, Steven" in the search results.
So do you think it would be safe to change the author metadata for kepubs by directly editing the Kobo device's database?
One example is the format of the author's name. I bought the first two books in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Although both books ae by the same publisher, on my Glo the first book shows the author as "Erikson, Steven" but the second book shows as "Steven Erikson".
This causes an issue when browsing or searching by author: although the books are both correctly sorted by the author's last name, they are treated as being by different authors, so all books by "Erikson, Steven" are listed ahead of any books by "Steven Erikson". It also affects the predictive search function because selecting the completion "Steven Erikson" will not show books by "Erikson, Steven" in the search results.
So do you think it would be safe to change the author metadata for kepubs by directly editing the Kobo device's database?