Calibre and Kindle: Different Book Names?

marissina · 03-07-2012, 04:50 AM

Hi,

I have a kindle 2 and my the ebooks I have are from various series, so before uploading them to my kindle I renamed the files to have the number in which they appeared in the series at the front of the books title to make it easy when sorting by title on my kindle. However, with my love of organisation I now have the problem that my books in calibre have numbers in the title, making them impossible to sort.

Is there any way that I can get my kindle to display a different title, or to rename the books in calibre and still have my kindle recognise these books as the same?

itimpi · 03-07-2012, 08:07 AM

You want to look at the Calibre "Metadata Plugboard" capability. It is designed for exactly the case where the metadata in the book needs massaging during the transfer to a device. You can then keep your Calibre metadata clean and set up rules for the "massaging" you prefer at a device level.

03-07-2012, 04:50 AM	#1
marissina Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Kindle 2	Calibre and Kindle: Different Book Names? Hi, I have a kindle 2 and my the ebooks I have are from various series, so before uploading them to my kindle I renamed the files to have the number in which they appeared in the series at the front of the books title to make it easy when sorting by title on my kindle. However, with my love of organisation I now have the problem that my books in calibre have numbers in the title, making them impossible to sort. Is there any way that I can get my kindle to display a different title, or to rename the books in calibre and still have my kindle recognise these books as the same?

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03-07-2012, 08:07 AM	#2
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,552 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	You want to look at the Calibre "Metadata Plugboard" capability. It is designed for exactly the case where the metadata in the book needs massaging during the transfer to a device. You can then keep your Calibre metadata clean and set up rules for the "massaging" you prefer at a device level.

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