iPad sync Stanza library to Calibre database?

vonCZ · 08-23-2010, 08:10 AM

i brought this up in another thread; figured I'd go ahead and post as stand-alone question:

After uploading numerous books to my iPad, I went thru the Calibre database and made various corrections and changes to some of the book entries: I fixed title misspellings, did author sort corrections, swapped out some of the book covers, etc. How can I make these changes take effect on the iPad/Stanza? (without deleting and re-copying over the books I've changed).

In Calibre I've gone to Preferences | Add/Save | Sending to device and changed the "Metadata management" to "Automatic management"... to no effect. Any ideas?

kidpixo · 05-03-2011, 03:01 PM

Hi, I got the same problem and the best solution was to erase the whole collection in Stanza and start from scratch with the updated books.

Any better solution?

Cheers!

gwynevans · 05-04-2011, 04:59 PM

Well, the approach that I've been taking is to use Calibre2opds to publish my books to a DropBox folder each time I make changes to the Calibre DB, then just download the next book or two from the 'cloud' as I read them, deleting them from the iPad once read.

I might sync a load to the iPad if I'm going to be offline for a while, but so far that's not been needed, even with a wifi-only iPad.

08-23-2010, 08:10 AM	#1
vonCZ Connoisseur Posts: 53 Karma: 286 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Rakovnik, Czech Device: iPad, iPhone 4	sync Stanza library to Calibre database? i brought this up in another thread; figured I'd go ahead and post as stand-alone question: After uploading numerous books to my iPad, I went thru the Calibre database and made various corrections and changes to some of the book entries: I fixed title misspellings, did author sort corrections, swapped out some of the book covers, etc. How can I make these changes take effect on the iPad/Stanza? (without deleting and re-copying over the books I've changed). In Calibre I've gone to Preferences \| Add/Save \| Sending to device and changed the "Metadata management" to "Automatic management"... to no effect. Any ideas?

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05-03-2011, 03:01 PM	#2
kidpixo Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Berlin , Deutschland Device: iPad, Kobo Touch (dead)	Hi, I got the same problem and the best solution was to erase the whole collection in Stanza and start from scratch with the updated books. Any better solution? Cheers!

05-04-2011, 04:59 PM	#3
gwynevans Wizzard Posts: 1,402 Karma: 2000000 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: iPad 2, iPhone 6s, Kindle Voyage & Kindle PaperWhite	Well, the approach that I've been taking is to use Calibre2opds to publish my books to a DropBox folder each time I make changes to the Calibre DB, then just download the next book or two from the 'cloud' as I read them, deleting them from the iPad once read. I might sync a load to the iPad if I'm going to be offline for a while, but so far that's not been needed, even with a wifi-only iPad.

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