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Originally Posted by thrawn_aj
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.
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Yes, but it's not ignoring the fields because it's not a book downloaded from B&N, it's ignoring the fields because that's not where it gets the data from.
The former would be malicious, as you're accusing them of - they'd be doing more work so less books work. The latter is just being lazy and not adding a feature (which
every developer is guilty of to some extent or another.)
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Originally Posted by thrawn_aj
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.
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Depends - which would you rather they do, edit every publisher's ebooks to include the metadata, or just handle it all on their own without mucking with the publisher's file?
I know which one I'd prefer, and it doesn't involve the store thinking they know better than the publisher. (That way lies Wal-Mart's music CDs...)