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Forum: Calibre 09-15-2010, 11:29 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 9,150
Posted By jchrist
need option to remove iTunesMetadata.plist from epub files

Hi there,

I got a collection of free ebooks from a friend, which they had already put into iTunes, and thus iTunes has added an iTunesMetadata.plist file into the epub.

However, the metadata in...
Forum: Calibre 09-14-2010, 11:28 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,966
Posted By jchrist
Hey, that seems to be the culprit. There *is* an...

Hey, that seems to be the culprit. There *is* an iTunesMetadata.plist file in this specific epub.

So...what's the best way to get rid of these .plist files for an entire library? I unzipped this...
Forum: Calibre 09-14-2010, 04:51 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,966
Posted By jchrist
This, by the way, matches the original name of...

This, by the way, matches the original name of the file when I imported it into calibre, before I cleaned up the metadata:

Dune Book 6 Chapterhouse_ Dune - Frank Herbert.epub

Why won't this...
Forum: Calibre 09-14-2010, 04:42 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,966
Posted By jchrist
Apparently not. That setting, for me, is the...

Apparently not. That setting, for me, is the default:
{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

However, I have (for instance) a book whose metadata contains:
Author: Frank Herbert
Title: ...
Forum: Calibre 09-14-2010, 02:19 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,966
Posted By jchrist
Apologies, it seems that I had missed something...

Apologies, it seems that I had missed something when editing the metadata. I was able to consolidate the directory names by changing the author field in the metadata.

However, the *filename* is...
Forum: Calibre 09-14-2010, 01:52 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 16,966
Posted By jchrist
rename files based on metadata

Hi there,

I recently imported a large number of titles into my library which had really
crappy filenames *and* metadata. I spent a good deal of time cleaning up the metadata, so now my metadata...
Forum: Apple Devices 06-30-2010, 11:55 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 36,890
Posted By jchrist
Kovid, I just converted a bunch of books...

Kovid,

I just converted a bunch of books with 0.7.6, and they still have the language set to UND, which means there's no dictionary on the iPad. Could you have an option in calibre to use the...
Forum: Calibre 02-02-2010, 10:13 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 3,582
Posted By jchrist
Wide left margins in epub to kindle conversion

Apologies if this is cross-posted, I'm still trying to figure out these forums.

I have the same problem as described in:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?p=770336#post770336,
...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-02-2010, 10:00 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 29,365
Posted By jchrist
Same problem

I have the same problem described in this thread.

The css used by my epub source book is quoted below. I've tried adding


* {
margin-left: 0px;
}

as the override css, and that didn't...
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