Collections

Group your books by shelves or series

Metadata

Metadata are collected for series only and provide extra information when possible. We try to gather information such as rating, if the series is still ongoing, start year etc. Your shelves does not have metadata as they are simply folders.

Exemple of metadata gathered from a series present on a Google Drive:

The directive [oboku~series] help oboku set this collection as a series. The title is also cleaned up to help having more relevant metadata. In this case we can see two different startYear from two providers. In this case you can add a directive [oboku~year~2016] to help refine the metadata and avoid invalid information.

Priority of display

Because we fetch several metadata from as many provider as we can we have to decide which information is displayed in priority. There are three type of metadata:

• user: These are the metadata you write yourself. They always have the higher priority and can be used to discard other metadata or just add more information. We encourage you to use the providers instead as it makes your library easier to share and maintain

• link: Any information we can gather directly from the link the collection is attached to. For example if you have a collection created from a sync on Google Drive, we will use the name of the file present on your drive.

• providers: Everything we can gather from our various providers to complete the metadata. We use what we can find in the user and link entries to help find more relevant information. This is why it's important to name your files / folders correctly and help us with directives when needed.

Refresh

Metadata for a series are automatically refreshed on two occasion:

• sync: Your collection will be refreshed if it has not been refreshed yet or if the link has been updated recently

• manual: You can force a metadata refresh manually on the collection detail page.