[citac]

I keep forgetting calibre makes a copy of everything it imports and puts it into its own folder; I kept looking at the original location and I could not see what you were talking about because of course it wasn't there.

I just saw what you were talking about: there's a META-INF folder, a mimetype file and content.opf, and there's also a metadata.opf in the ebook folder together with the zip. Everyone kept talking about how you should never look into calibre created folders. Since these folders are what drove me bonkers whenever I used calibre before, I was deliberately staying away from them.

I'm not really sure what the problem is other than that you don't like the way Calibre has to handle multiple file html ebooks? Is it interfering with how you use the html files?

It's not that I don't like the way it handles multiple file html ebooks, it's that I didn't understand why there would even be a need to zip up a plain html file when there's no additional content connected to it. I get that you'd need to zip up a html file and its style sheet, but a html file with an embedded stylesheet? It seemed redundant.

It sounds like you are trying to change content.

Yes, I'm trying to bulk change content, in calibre, after importing the fics, because the author information is wrong. It is wrong because the downloader program I had used before would insert the name of the program creator into the html coding itself (i.e. <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' />).

Once the fics get imported into calibre, it reads the <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' /> information and puts that as the author's name. How do I go about automatically changing <meta name='author' content='Grzegorz Hordynski' /> to <meta name='author' content='Author Name' /> ? Am I making myself clear? You say there's a way to do that on the Conversion screen, and that it's possible even though it's not meant for it, but I don't understand how. What expression do I need to enter to make this change because obviously pasting the above line does not work?

My ultimate goal is to eventually convert all my saved fics into epub, after which I plan to delete the imported books from the calibre library. I do not intend to use it for ebook management, just for converting.

(I just bet it's going to turn out to be something really simple and I'll be kicking myself for missing something painfully obvious!)