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Originally Posted by =X=
There was a program called soPDF here on the forums that edited the Meta data from the command line. There is another app, I believe in Java but I forget the name of it.
I had written a script file that updated the Meta data based on the file name. It had a batch feature that converted all the files.
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Is there a way for me to download your script? I've never taken on scripts; I don't know much about them or what they would be useful for. But if you have a script command that would automatically read the author/title from Calibre's library and copy that info into this "soPDF" program's metadata-editor for every PDF in my Calibre library, then you would save me dozens and dozens of hours of work.
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Personally I think you're doing it wrong. I mean what a pain to have to copy every file over to each device you use. You lose the power of calibre's file management as well. There is nothing easier and more powerful than using calibre's ODPS web server. Simply point your device to the web page and search for the file using calibre's search engine and tag based system. Once found download the book to whatever device you want, be it Android, kindle,nook, iPod, iPad,etc....
Montano and Moon+ integrate odps web severs very nicely to their products.
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I've run Calibre's Content Server and accessed all my files using Aldiko since that was the first reader I downloaded (I haven't tried yet with any others that are OPDS-enabled). Like Sweet Pea, for whatever reason, when I tried to implement a password, I couldn't access the catalog with Aldiko. It only worked when I didn't password-protect the Content Server.
Just to be clear, since I'm a newbie to this stuff, when I say "Calibre Content Server" and you say "Calibre OPDS Web Server", we're talking about the same thing, right? You go to "Calibre > Preferences > Sharing Over the Net" and then hit "Start Server" and leave that server running. Then I use Aldiko (or whatever reader) to go to the url "192.168.1.x:8080". This is what we're talking about when we're talking about OPDS, correct? I'm simply turning my personal Calibre library into an OPDS catalog.
The problem is that this doesn't address the root of the problem: that most of my several thousand PDFs' metadata aren't properly organized. Also, as I said earlier, I very much want access to my library when I'm offline or don't have access to WiFi. I live in cattle country. Very few businesses are WiFi-enabled. So unless I only want to read at home, then I need these eBooks stored locally.