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evanbernstein · 01-05-2012, 05:48 PM

hello everyone,

I apologize if this has already been covered a ton, but I didn't see it mentioned in the faq, and a quick search didn't show me what I wanted to know.

I recently started using calibre now that I learned that Stanza works with the OPDS interface and that Calibre2Opds exists. However, I'm frustrated by how calibre seems to edit metadata. If I understand correctly, calibre only edits metadata in its sql lite db, and does not actually modify the ebook metadata. So when I go and run Calibre2Opds, the books that Stanza will download still have the old metadata.

I've tried reconverting books, but this seems tedious, and sometimes makes the book a slightly worse format (or there was a bug in that particular version of calibre, I'm not sure).

Is this really how calibre works? Is there a setting to force calibre to update the ebook and not just the DB? Is there another way to do this easily that I'm missing?

Thanks for your help.

01-05-2012, 05:48 PM	#1
evanbernstein Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: iphone, ipad, Marvin	Metadata and Calibre2Opds hello everyone, I apologize if this has already been covered a ton, but I didn't see it mentioned in the faq, and a quick search didn't show me what I wanted to know. I recently started using calibre now that I learned that Stanza works with the OPDS interface and that Calibre2Opds exists. However, I'm frustrated by how calibre seems to edit metadata. If I understand correctly, calibre only edits metadata in its sql lite db, and does not actually modify the ebook metadata. So when I go and run Calibre2Opds, the books that Stanza will download still have the old metadata. I've tried reconverting books, but this seems tedious, and sometimes makes the book a slightly worse format (or there was a bug in that particular version of calibre, I'm not sure). Is this really how calibre works? Is there a setting to force calibre to update the ebook and not just the DB? Is there another way to do this easily that I'm missing? Thanks for your help.