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Old 09-04-2011, 09:08 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by thrawn_aj View Post
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).
Except it's not that the file has been "blessed", per se, because they're showing data that's not actually in the ePub! So it's a case of "we're drawing this data from somewhere else", not "we're only showing this data if it's in our files not yours".
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