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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
When you export an ebook from calibre's library, metadata is updated in that ebook. So there is no need to send someone an opf file. Indeed, if you are sharing with a limited number of people, simply use email sending in calibre.
@kiwidude: I know you're going to say, but I have my dad turn off read metadata. Even in that case the title and author will be imported correctlt, since, IIRC the default filename regex works with the default save to disk template. So you dad will have title/author and date added set correctly.
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Hi Kovid,
The problem is I want to preserve
everything about the book,
except the date added. I've already done "all the work" of getting perfect metadata, linked ids, custom columns, tags etc setup and just want him to have the same.
So if not sending him the opf files, that leaves two choices: not importing metadata from the book at all (using the filename as you mention), or importing metadata from the book (which will only work for some metadata and on some formats, and will potentially cause problems if he adds his own books from elsewhere).
Likewise when I transfer between libraries on my machine using Copy to Library, I hit exactly the same problem. I want all the data preserved, except date added. And right now the only way I can do that is (when I remember) to select the books before I export them and manually set the date. Otherwise it can become too difficult by the time you switch to the other library to find the books you just transferred.
It just would be nice for an option to allow date added to reflect exactly that - the date added to this library, not the date added to any library in Calibre ever...
