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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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Well, that's the part I wasn't sure about (and I didn't write that very clearly
). In my (highly flawed to be sure) recollection, some books had the summary in the metadata and some didn't. But now that you mention it, I think you're right about the B&N books. By the way, this would seem to be a publisher thing (having summaries or not) so if you find a savvy self-publisher on PubIT, I wouldn't be surprised if those files do have the summary saved.
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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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It's both, since even metadata you save in Calibre doesn't show up on the nook. It simply doesn't read any of the fields.
B&N must be downloading the summaries separately to the hidden system partition instead of (as any sane person would do) including them in the file's metadata fields. As I said - highly transparent ploy to make people buy books directly from the device where it's essentially a one-click purchase. Makes me sad to think of the hobbled features that are so painstakingly coded in to make simple things complex.