diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/cybookg3/driver.py b/src/calibre/devices/cybookg3/driver.py
index cdc41d3aca..8f58c65ae7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/cybookg3/driver.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/cybookg3/driver.py
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ class CYBOOKG3(USBMS):
 
     def upload_cover(self, path, filename, metadata):
         coverdata = getattr(metadata, 'thumbnail', None)
-        if coverdata:
+        if coverdata and coverdata[2]:
             with open('%s_6090.t2b' % os.path.join(path, filename), 'wb') as t2bfile:
-                t2b.write_t2b(t2bfile, coverdata)
+                t2b.write_t2b(t2bfile, coverdata[2])
 
     @classmethod
     def can_handle(cls, device_info, debug=False):
diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/interface.py b/src/calibre/devices/interface.py
index d8c22170f5..a774ed37ed 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/interface.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/interface.py
@@ -276,7 +276,9 @@ class DevicePlugin(Plugin):
         The idea is to use the metadata to determine where on the device to
         put the book. len(metadata) == len(files). Apart from the regular
         cover_data, there may also be a thumbnail attribute, which should
-        be used in preference.
+        be used in preference. The thumbnail attribute is of the form
+        (width, height, cover_data as jpeg). In addition the MetaInformation
+        objects can have a tag_order attribute.
         '''
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
@@ -286,17 +288,8 @@ class DevicePlugin(Plugin):
         Add locations to the booklists. This function must not communicate with
         the device.
         @param locations: Result of a call to L{upload_books}
-        @param metadata: List of dictionaries. Each dictionary must have the
-        keys C{title}, C{authors}, C{author_sort}, C{cover}, C{tags}.
-        The value of the C{cover}
-        element can be None or a three element tuple (width, height, data)
-        where data is the image data in JPEG format as a string. C{tags} must be
-        a possibly empty list of strings. C{authors} must be a string.
-        C{author_sort} may be None. It is upto the driver to decide whether to
-        use C{author_sort} or not.
-        The dictionary can also have an optional key "tag order" which should be
-        another dictionary that maps tag names to lists of book ids. The ids are
-        ids from the book database.
+        @param metadata: List of MetaInformation objects, same as for
+        :method:`upload_books`.
         @param booklists: A tuple containing the result of calls to
                                 (L{books}(oncard=None), L{books}(oncard='carda'),
                                 L{books}(oncard='cardb')).
diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/nook/driver.py b/src/calibre/devices/nook/driver.py
index fc28363bff..c74a964648 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/nook/driver.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/nook/driver.py
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ class NOOK(USBMS):
 
 
         coverdata = getattr(metadata, 'thumbnail', None)
-        if coverdata:
-            cover = Image.open(cStringIO.StringIO(coverdata))
+        if coverdata and coverdata[2]:
+            cover = Image.open(cStringIO.StringIO(coverdata[2]))
         else:
             coverdata = open(I('library.png'), 'rb').read()
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/prs505/books.py b/src/calibre/devices/prs505/books.py
index 6e268e734a..227356bda9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/prs505/books.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/prs505/books.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ class BookList(_BookList):
                     return child
         return None
 
-    def add_book(self, info, name, size, ctime):
+    def add_book(self, mi, name, size, ctime):
         """ Add a node into the DOM tree, representing a book """
         book = self.book_by_path(name)
         if book is not None:
@@ -194,9 +194,9 @@ class BookList(_BookList):
         except:
             sourceid = '1'
         attrs = {
-                 "title"  : info["title"],
-                 'titleSorter' : sortable_title(info['title']),
-                 "author" : info["authors"] if info['authors'] else _('Unknown'),
+                 "title"  : mi.title,
+                 'titleSorter' : sortable_title(mi.title),
+                 "author" : mi.format_authors() if mi.format_authors() else _('Unknown'),
                  "page":"0", "part":"0", "scale":"0", \
                  "sourceid":sourceid,  "id":str(cid), "date":"", \
                  "mime":mime, "path":name, "size":str(size)
@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ class BookList(_BookList):
             node.setAttributeNode(self.document.createAttribute(attr))
             node.setAttribute(attr, attrs[attr])
         try:
-            w, h, data = info["cover"]
-        except TypeError:
+            w, h, data = mi.thumbnail
+        except:
             w, h, data = None, None, None
 
         if data:
@@ -221,10 +221,15 @@ class BookList(_BookList):
         book = Book(node, self.mountpath, [], prefix=self.prefix)
         book.datetime = ctime
         self.append(book)
-        if info.has_key('tags'):
-            if info.has_key('tag order'):
-                self.tag_order.update(info['tag order'])
-            self.set_tags(book, info['tags'])
+        tags = []
+        if mi.tags:
+            tags.extend(mi.tags)
+        if mi.series:
+            tags.append(mi.series)
+        if tags:
+            if hasattr(mi, 'tag_order'):
+                self.tag_order.update(mi.tag_order)
+            self.set_tags(book, tags)
 
     def _delete_book(self, node):
         nid = node.getAttribute('id')
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/library.py b/src/calibre/gui2/library.py
index 6463d11daa..70f75917be 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/library.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/library.py
@@ -400,7 +400,13 @@ class BooksModel(QAbstractTableModel):
         return data
 
     def metadata_for(self, ids):
-        return [self.db.get_metadata(id, index_is_id=True) for id in ids]
+        ans = []
+        for id in ids:
+            mi = self.db.get_metadata(id, index_is_id=True)
+            if mi.series is not None:
+                mi.tag_order = self.db.books_in_series_of(id, index_is_id=True)
+            ans.append(mi)
+        return ans
 
     def get_metadata(self, rows, rows_are_ids=False, full_metadata=False):
         metadata, _full_metadata = [], []