Hi,
I copied the file from Calibre's library to an external location, manipulated it there, deleted the original ebook via GUI in Calibre, and added the modified ebook again.
Here is my call of ebook-meta followed by the output:
Code:
E:\Programme\Calibre\ebook-meta "C:\0051 - Jagd nach dem Leben - Unbekannt.epub" -a "Kurt Brand"
Original-Metadaten::
Title : 0051 - Jagd nach dem Leben
Author(s) : Jagd nach dem [Unbekannt]
Book Producer : calibre (0.6.20) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
Timestamp : 2009-10-31T13:08:33+00:00
Published : 2009-10-31T13:08:33+00:00
Geänderte Metadaten::
Title : 0051 - Jagd nach dem Leben
Author(s) : Jagd nach dem [Unbekannt]
Book Producer : calibre (0.6.20) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
Timestamp : 2009-10-31T13:08:33+00:00
Published : 2009-10-31T13:08:33+00:00
Though is partly German you can see that nothing has changed. What is a bit strange is that in the GUI author of the original ebook is shown as 'Unbekannt' (i.e. Unknown), same for author_sort whereas here author contains some part of the title. This is identical to the metatdata shown in the GUI after import of the modified ebook.
Best regards
mumdigau