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Originally Posted by dwanthny
Welcome to Mobileread.
How do you get books from calibre to your device?
First, I believe some types of PDF files don't seem to accept changes using calibre's metadata writer. However most PDF files can be updated. Do you have the pdf metadata writer plugin enabled?
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The plugin is enabled: Metadata writer plugins > Set pdf metadata (0.7.37) by Kovid Goyal
What I do to test writing to pdf is:
1) change the title of say book X in calibre, then I quit calibre, go to its library Folder on the computer, find book X, right click and have a look at it's properties "title" in Windows explorer as well as my pdf Reader. The title stays empty.
2) Do the same, but instead of quitting calibre I just send book X to the device again (it was already there)
Now I have two books on the device with different names (this might be the reason for my disappearing bookmarks/notes). The new one has indeed the changed pdf title (as opposed to the local file in the calibre library on the computer)
The pdf version varies across my library. I tested this on 1.4 and 1.5 version of unencrypted pdf with no security enabled.
My expectation is that the pdf title property is changed on the local pdf
About how I send books to my device:
Right-Click > Send to device > Send to storage card B
Here indeed the pdf properties are NOW changed (this is the first time I do it with the windows version of calibre at work). This is good news. I will look into the matter as why this did not happen the first time when I did it with linux but only when I get home.
I truly hope that finally the sony reader will not again start to differ from my calibre library.
However some questions remain:
1) why isn't the local library changed (the pdf property on the PC). The name of the pdf is changed. I would expect the properties also to change or at least have the option to write all properties into the files
2) Is there a way to perserve notes/bookmarks across a complete delete/resend of my library onto the device? I am not convinced that the books on the device and the library will not again start to differ. Maybe another Sony user can help me out?
Thank you