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Tango Mike · 11-30-2011, 02:15 PM

Calibre on an OS 10.6 Mac converting .doc files to .epub is doing something baffling.

I've converted about fifty books, and sometimes when I load the filtered .htm into Calibre for conversion, it appears with my name listed in the title field rather than the title. I've been entering the real title, the author, and the publisher and proceeding with the conversion.

The resulting .epub (and .mobi) files have appeared without glitches of any kind in Kindle for Mac, Adobe Digital Editions, and on Kindles, Nooks, and iPads.

Yesterday I was informed that a book I had converted to .epub had my name inserted in the metadata for each of the linked chapter headings, twice for each heading. The author jokingly accused me of trying to take over the e-publishing universe.

I just now opened that .epub in Sigil, and in the "all HTML" view confirmed that is indeed the case. I then used Sigil to open the .htm file used to create the .epub, and my name appears nowhere in the html. This seems evidence enough that Calibre is the culprit.

Has anyone ever heard of this, and can you tell me how to avoid/fix it without having to revise the html (which I'm not knowledgeable enough to do)?

Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

11-30-2011, 02:15 PM	#1
Tango Mike Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 20 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: none	Strange Goings On Calibre on an OS 10.6 Mac converting .doc files to .epub is doing something baffling. I've converted about fifty books, and sometimes when I load the filtered .htm into Calibre for conversion, it appears with my name listed in the title field rather than the title. I've been entering the real title, the author, and the publisher and proceeding with the conversion. The resulting .epub (and .mobi) files have appeared without glitches of any kind in Kindle for Mac, Adobe Digital Editions, and on Kindles, Nooks, and iPads. Yesterday I was informed that a book I had converted to .epub had my name inserted in the metadata for each of the linked chapter headings, twice for each heading. The author jokingly accused me of trying to take over the e-publishing universe. I just now opened that .epub in Sigil, and in the "all HTML" view confirmed that is indeed the case. I then used Sigil to open the .htm file used to create the .epub, and my name appears nowhere in the html. This seems evidence enough that Calibre is the culprit. Has anyone ever heard of this, and can you tell me how to avoid/fix it without having to revise the html (which I'm not knowledgeable enough to do)? Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.