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Originally Posted by megrose0222
Thank you so much. This obviously doesnt fix getting the summary by tapping it but I still love this. All I have to do is open it. I was alittle confused at first but after thinking about it my brain must have clicked on and I figured it out.
Thanks Again
Meg
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You're quite welcome
. Glad you got it to work for you.
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Originally Posted by ryanpl
Another option for the Nook Touch, if rooted, is to use an alternative e-reader program like Moon+ reader. I'm trying to find one that I like.
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Interesting! Is the softroot pretty bug-free at this point? Or is it still just for experts? Guess I'm trying to figure out my potential risk here
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Originally Posted by ATimson
I don't remember - do B&N's ePubs have metadata in the OPFs? As a self-respecting programmer, if the only sample files I had to work from had no summary, I wouldn't bother to add support for an optional field that is worthless for my needs.  |
Good question. I think they have the basic metadata: title, author, publisher, date. Probably not the summary. They are good about always having the cover, which is nice. In Calibre, I usually try it first anyway. So, my usual routine is:
- Add the downloaded book to Calibre.
- In the edit metadata dialog, near where the book filetype is shown, I click the cover and metadata buttons to transfer the existing metadata to the Calibre record. In most cases, title, author and cover are recovered. Once you have that, the Calibre auto-downloads take care of the rest. Really quite painless . B&N should be paying the Calibre team for making a deliberately crippled firmware useable to so many users.
I should mention that the SAME epub files copied from the B&N folder to the my docs folder will show the same sort of limited metadata people have been reporting in this thread. The point is not that the book files themselves are missing metadata. It's that if the book had not been downloaded directly over the air from B&N (and therefore blessed by the Pope himself), the book reader will refuse to parse the extra metadata (i.e. anything but title, author and cover).