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durtreg · 01-26-2011, 05:25 AM

Hi,

For the third time now the combination of calibre/sony prs 650 have messed up my whole collection of books. I lost all bookmars and all my notes.

Over time the data in calibre starts to differ more and more from the data on the device. Double books show up even though there are no doubles on the device (I searched). Titles/authors start to differ.

In the end I cannot find the books on the device with the name I used to find them. This leaves me no choice as to delete all files on the device and write them again onto the device from the calibre library.

I the process I loose all my bookmarks/notes!

This is really annoying the hell out of me.

I don't know who exactly is the culprit (may be even the one in front of the monitor).

However I have some questions, and be grateful if someone could answer them:
1) is there a good way to cope with differences between calibre and the ebook reader?

i.E. is there a option which does "overwrite any ebook on the device with the data in the calibre library - preserving my notes/bookmarks"?

This would essentially replicate what is IMHO standard on virtually any sync tool I know:
A and B should be synced, so i.e. Firefox Sync allows me to define "A overwrites B", as well as "B overwrites A".

2) Keep metadata and opf/calibre data in sync
The FAQ says, that calibre can write metadata to pdf. Unfortunately it doesn't write the metadata into the pdf.

Neither in Linux nor in Windows am I able to force my carefully edited Titles/Authors from calibre into the pdf.
=> is there an option which does: "write all metadata of the selected books as they are in calibre into the pdf/epub"?

If these options are available in calibre and I simply haven't found them, then sorry. I spent a lot of time searching the calibre website as well as google to have an answer. However either I asked the wrong question or nobody had the same problem.
This seems strange as metadata-sync seems so basic that this should be working fine.

I really don't want to have to use Adobe Digital Editions as it's not Free Software and doesn't work with Linux.

Thanks to anyone helping me to use calibre.

01-26-2011, 05:25 AM	#1
durtreg Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony PRS 650	Differences between library and reader: Force calibre to write metadata into ebook Hi, For the third time now the combination of calibre/sony prs 650 have messed up my whole collection of books. I lost all bookmars and all my notes. Over time the data in calibre starts to differ more and more from the data on the device. Double books show up even though there are no doubles on the device (I searched). Titles/authors start to differ. In the end I cannot find the books on the device with the name I used to find them. This leaves me no choice as to delete all files on the device and write them again onto the device from the calibre library. I the process I loose all my bookmarks/notes! This is really annoying the hell out of me. I don't know who exactly is the culprit (may be even the one in front of the monitor). However I have some questions, and be grateful if someone could answer them: 1) is there a good way to cope with differences between calibre and the ebook reader? i.E. is there a option which does "overwrite any ebook on the device with the data in the calibre library - preserving my notes/bookmarks"? This would essentially replicate what is IMHO standard on virtually any sync tool I know: A and B should be synced, so i.e. Firefox Sync allows me to define "A overwrites B", as well as "B overwrites A". 2) Keep metadata and opf/calibre data in sync The FAQ says, that calibre can write metadata to pdf. Unfortunately it doesn't write the metadata into the pdf. Neither in Linux nor in Windows am I able to force my carefully edited Titles/Authors from calibre into the pdf. => is there an option which does: "write all metadata of the selected books as they are in calibre into the pdf/epub"? If these options are available in calibre and I simply haven't found them, then sorry. I spent a lot of time searching the calibre website as well as google to have an answer. However either I asked the wrong question or nobody had the same problem. This seems strange as metadata-sync seems so basic that this should be working fine. I really don't want to have to use Adobe Digital Editions as it's not Free Software and doesn't work with Linux. Thanks to anyone helping me to use calibre.