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ardeur · 04-07-2011, 04:23 PM

Yesterday I encountered a problem after I made a BUNCH of metadata edits on the ebooks in my calibre library (30-45 minutes of work). I cannot find a way to tell which books I edited (I can try to guess from memory... eek!), so now I have no idea which books to transfer back to my device.

A few days ago I made a bunch of metada edits, and calibre kept track of those newly edited books by unchecking the box in the "on device" column. I could easily tell which books I worked on, and then transfer those to my device. This didn't happen yesterday, though. Calibre thinks the edited books in its library are identical to the unedited versions on my device.

I noticed that my device, at some point along the way, had ejected, so calibre no longer recognized it while I was making all those metadata edits yesterday. Maybe this had something to do with it?

Maybe there was a more efficient way I should have been doing this from the start? :-(

ETA: I have a nook, and I cannot edit the metadata from the device library in calibre. I have to transfer the books to the calibre library to make any edits.

04-07-2011, 04:23 PM	#1
ardeur Member Posts: 15 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: CA Device: Nook Simple Touch, 4th Gen Kindle Basic	which books did I edit? Yesterday I encountered a problem after I made a BUNCH of metadata edits on the ebooks in my calibre library (30-45 minutes of work). I cannot find a way to tell which books I edited (I can try to guess from memory... eek!), so now I have no idea which books to transfer back to my device. A few days ago I made a bunch of metada edits, and calibre kept track of those newly edited books by unchecking the box in the "on device" column. I could easily tell which books I worked on, and then transfer those to my device. This didn't happen yesterday, though. Calibre thinks the edited books in its library are identical to the unedited versions on my device. I noticed that my device, at some point along the way, had ejected, so calibre no longer recognized it while I was making all those metadata edits yesterday. Maybe this had something to do with it? Maybe there was a more efficient way I should have been doing this from the start? :-( ETA: I have a nook, and I cannot edit the metadata from the device library in calibre. I have to transfer the books to the calibre library to make any edits. Last edited by ardeur; 04-07-2011 at 04:27 PM.