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Old 08-13-2011, 07:39 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by kiwidude View Post
But then you lose all the tags and book metadata, unless the person importing it has the "read from file" option checked, which is something I always recommend turning off because of the junk generally in files. So the person importing would have to alternate turning it on and off, which will never work.
I was talking about he external metadata.opf, in theory the metadata inside the book is updated when you use the Save to disk feature so would still import into calibre.

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The timestamp is not the one inside the EPUB - when you save to disk from Calibre the separate opf file has the likes of this in it:
<meta content="2010-11-22T15:29:14+00:00" name="calibre:timestamp"/>
This timestamp is also in the internal opf file, but I don't think it is used during import.
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