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Old 02-23-2011, 05:23 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
My (often faulty) recollection was that originally the Calibre date field was the date the book was added, unless the the Calibre date was specified in the epub opf.
Correct.

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This confused some people, who expected to always see the date the book was added, not some date stored in the opf, so it was changed to ignore that date on import?
Correct again. It ignores the opf internal to the ePub.

However if you are importing from a directory that has independent (external) opf file then calibre assumes you want the info from that external opf imported. Maybe you are restoring from backup or importing into a second library.
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