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Originally Posted by theducks
I am curious why that file exists if it can't be used as the OP desires? (Recover Library Items from Device)
That (xml) file is HUGE, bigger than metadata.db for a smaller count of books. AFAIK, it exists just to put the initial On Device tick marks in the main library.
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You exactly got my point.
Now that we have clarified that this behavior is not implemented in Calibre, I would like to see it implemented in a future release.
The idea is to have a third option in the "add to library" function:
1 - determine metadata from file name.
2 - extract metadata from the metadata section contained in file.
3 - copy metadata from the metadata file on device.
This would also enable to better handle metadata for file formats that cannot contain metadata information, e.g., txt files.