Changing Book Title

zdas04 · 01-14-2010, 04:55 PM

I got a Kindle 2 for Christmas and have bought a couple of books from Amazon and everything worked fine. Today I bought a series of 9 books and they sort on the Kindle by the file name (i.e., book 4 starts with a "B" so it is first). If I sort by "latest" then book 9 shows up first.

After a bit of searching, I downloaded Calibre and changed the title to "Book 01 Semper Fi" etc. I delted all the books from the Kindle and saved the books back down using the USB. The books look fine on the PC, but on the Kindle they still have the same book titles. When I try to "convert" them in Calibre to try to force the updated metadata I get a DRM message.

Is there any way to change the book title on the Kindle?

I think I'm running 2.2.2, but when I downloaded 2.3 the "update" option is greyed out.

Thanks

David

desertgrandma · 01-14-2010, 07:31 PM

Welcome to MobileRead, zdas04.

rcuadro · 01-14-2010, 07:33 PM

You can use mobi2mobi to edit the titles even on DRMed books
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21763

zdas04 · 01-15-2010, 12:06 AM

Thanks, I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

David

zdas04 · 01-15-2010, 05:03 PM

Mobi2Mobi worked perfectly, I got the titles to sort exactly like I wanted them to. Thank you all.

David

01-14-2010, 04:55 PM	#1
zdas04 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle 2	Changing Book Title I got a Kindle 2 for Christmas and have bought a couple of books from Amazon and everything worked fine. Today I bought a series of 9 books and they sort on the Kindle by the file name (i.e., book 4 starts with a "B" so it is first). If I sort by "latest" then book 9 shows up first. After a bit of searching, I downloaded Calibre and changed the title to "Book 01 Semper Fi" etc. I delted all the books from the Kindle and saved the books back down using the USB. The books look fine on the PC, but on the Kindle they still have the same book titles. When I try to "convert" them in Calibre to try to force the updated metadata I get a DRM message. Is there any way to change the book title on the Kindle? I think I'm running 2.2.2, but when I downloaded 2.3 the "update" option is greyed out. Thanks David

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01-14-2010, 07:31 PM	#2
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462841 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Welcome to MobileRead, zdas04.

01-14-2010, 07:33 PM	#3
rcuadro Wizard Posts: 1,686 Karma: 874275 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, VA Device: Kindle DX	You can use mobi2mobi to edit the titles even on DRMed books https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21763

01-15-2010, 12:06 AM	#4
zdas04 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle 2	Thanks, I'll take a look at it tomorrow. David

01-15-2010, 05:03 PM	#5
zdas04 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle 2	Mobi2Mobi worked perfectly, I got the titles to sort exactly like I wanted them to. Thank you all. David

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