thanks for your quick response.
i see how updating the pdf would be the ideal solution, though nontrivial of course... still, would it be possible for calibre to set the metadata manually after the transfer -- i should say, emulating the action of me double-clicking each field and editing it by hand -- because that seems to update the information perfectly well for files on the card. i have been doing this myself but i have many pdfs and the reader loads pdf's *much* faster than lrf's, so i'd rather not convert them all.
also, i am not a python developer but am a programmer by trade. i would gladly submit a patch if you could give me a hint to where to find what i'm looking for in the source
thanks!