Book Title as it appears in Marvin

jgt1942 · 04-27-2014, 06:09 PM

Where is Marvin obtaining the book title from? In Calibre I renamed a book from A "Darkness More Than Night" to "HB07 A Darkness More Than Night" by editing the metadata and did this for all of the books in the series (a total of 20). I uploaded the books to my DropBox and then via Marvin downloaded the books to my wife's iPad. Now when I view the books in the Marvin library the title appears as "A Darkness More Than Night". I expected to see the title as I have it in Calibre. She wants to read the books in series order.

eschwartz · 04-27-2014, 06:36 PM

Marvin gets the metadata from the ebook file, not from calibre's database. calibre does not write metadata to its own master copy of a book until/unless you do a conversion or use the Polish Book feature (shortcut key is "P") for EPUB/AZW3.

You can send the book from calibre with the Marvin XD device plugin, the usual way, since calibre always updates metadata on the copy it sends to devices or saves to disk, or use Polish Book to update the master copy synced to Dropbox.

04-27-2014, 06:09 PM	#1
jgt1942 Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: iPad	Book Title as it appears in Marvin Where is Marvin obtaining the book title from? In Calibre I renamed a book from A "Darkness More Than Night" to "HB07 A Darkness More Than Night" by editing the metadata and did this for all of the books in the series (a total of 20). I uploaded the books to my DropBox and then via Marvin downloaded the books to my wife's iPad. Now when I view the books in the Marvin library the title appears as "A Darkness More Than Night". I expected to see the title as I have it in Calibre. She wants to read the books in series order.

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04-27-2014, 06:36 PM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,422 Karma: 85397180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Marvin gets the metadata from the ebook file, not from calibre's database. calibre does not write metadata to its own master copy of a book until/unless you do a conversion or use the Polish Book feature (shortcut key is "P") for EPUB/AZW3. You can send the book from calibre with the Marvin XD device plugin, the usual way, since calibre always updates metadata on the copy it sends to devices or saves to disk, or use Polish Book to update the master copy synced to Dropbox.

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