Thread: Confused about Metadata!
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Old 07-26-2011, 10:10 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Arrghus View Post
Many thanks for your reply!

I am right in thinking then that when I send eBooks to my Sony Reader, for instance, the metadata of the books themselves are changed, but Calibre still keeps the original file intact (instead still storing metadata in its database file)?

I mainly work with EPUBs, by the way.
Yes. For EPUBs, the Calibre metadata gets inserted in the file sent to the device. The library original is not updated in that case. If that is what you want, you must do an EPUB-to-EPUB conversion within Calibre.
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