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tonyc46 · 02-21-2012, 05:56 AM

Apologies if this has been covered. I tried several searches and couldn't find this topic.

I am trying to find how to get a reader to use the filename as the title rather than the metadata. I have tried Mantano, Moon+, Aldiko, etc. They all import the title from the metadata (apparently).

For example, I have a book called thisbook.pdf that is showing a title of ISBN.pdf. The filename is thisbook.pdf so I'm assuming the ISBN as the title is coming from the metadata (as I remember, when I got these books they were titled using the ISBN).

This seems to be happening mostly in PDFs.

I think I have two choices:

1. Find a reader that will support listing the books by filename and not use the metadata.
2. Find a program that will rewrite the title metadata field with the filename. I'd need a program that would do this in batch since I have a lot of books that are having this problem. I would also prefer having it for Mac, although I could do it on a PC.

RE #2: I use Calibre and was hoping there was a script, plugin, etc. that would do this automatically in Calibre. However, I haven't been able to find anything like that.

Thanks for the help.

02-21-2012, 05:56 AM	#1
tonyc46 Member Posts: 24 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: iPad Gen 6	Use Filename as Title in ANY Reader Apologies if this has been covered. I tried several searches and couldn't find this topic. I am trying to find how to get a reader to use the filename as the title rather than the metadata. I have tried Mantano, Moon+, Aldiko, etc. They all import the title from the metadata (apparently). For example, I have a book called thisbook.pdf that is showing a title of ISBN.pdf. The filename is thisbook.pdf so I'm assuming the ISBN as the title is coming from the metadata (as I remember, when I got these books they were titled using the ISBN). This seems to be happening mostly in PDFs. I think I have two choices: 1. Find a reader that will support listing the books by filename and not use the metadata. 2. Find a program that will rewrite the title metadata field with the filename. I'd need a program that would do this in batch since I have a lot of books that are having this problem. I would also prefer having it for Mac, although I could do it on a PC. RE #2: I use Calibre and was hoping there was a script, plugin, etc. that would do this automatically in Calibre. However, I haven't been able to find anything like that. Thanks for the help.