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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
If anyone else is having this problem, set metadata management to automatic in preferences - sending books to devices. When you connect to calibre again, the author names will be restored, but the modified date will stay the same.
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I'm glad you found a workaround for your problem.
I got it working in the end, I was running an older version of the russified firmware and I updated to latest version. It was either the firmware or the way I was adding books to the reader.
I figured out what was happening. When Calibre writes metadata on the reader, it replaces the author with author_sort in the reader's cache file (media.xml).
If you then change the date for a book with OrderBooks and disconnect, the reader detects the difference between the new date and the old date in it's cache, and it will refresh the cache for that book, recreating the original author name (fn ln).
If you use 'automatic management' and open Calibre after using OrderBooks, Calibre will refresh the cache/library on the reader with the new date.
In the next version of OrderBooks I will include the option to change the date in the reader's cache, not only on the file, so the author name set by Calibre would stick.
I will also add a search box to locate books easier in the list.
If anyone has any other suggestions for the next version I'd like to hear them.
Cheers.