[Madmick]

Originally Posted by =X=

In the past Calibre did not modify the PDF, but later versions it adopted pdftk as part of the build and now updates the meta data of the PDF. So as long as you update the PDF in calibre the pdf file will be updated as well.

I used Calibre 0.8.28 or later to edit all these PDF's, and the metadata still isn't translating correctly to my Android readers like Mantano.

1) I don't want to risk corrupting files by attempting BBEdit usage through Terminal (don't want to spend the time making sure I know what I'm doing).
2) soPDF is only available as an .exe for Windows, and I don't want to go through the hassle of porting my entire library from my MacBook Pro to my crappy old backup Windows PC just to test this out.
3) Ergo, I tried editing the metadata in PDFInfo, and was optimistic because it only had several metadata fields to edit (including "author" and "title"), but when I imported these newly edited PDF's to Mantano, it just showed "ÿPa" for author and title of every PDF I test-edited.

Ughhh...I'm done. I've spent enough time trying to get these PDF's nice and neat. Instead, I'm just gonna create collections in Mantano for them, and sort them accordingly. That will make it easier to find them in the future. I can keep them separate from a MOBI/EPUB collection I'll create for my entire library in those formats that will show up and allow sorting neatly.

I use to be obsessive about having my whole library on my SONY PRS-505/Kindle but then I came back to reality. How many books can I read at once. I typically have 3-5 books going on at the same time and don't read a different book until I'm done. Some books take a week to finish others take months.

Yeah, I was slowly coming to that realization on my own. I do a lot of academic reading where I require cross-referencing, but realistically, I've narrowed down the list I absolutely want stored locally to about 700 books.

Also ezPDF is a great PDF reader, personally I like reading PDF on that app much more than on Montano. RepliGo and ezPDF are also the only apps that have the ability to annotate PDF using the PDF standard.

My opinion is ezPDF is a better reading app, however RepliGO is better at annotating, looking up annotations and reading image based images.

I might end up purchasing ezPDF, then. Most of my PDF's are nonfiction science-based stuff. For those, I create flow charts in separate applications (Microsoft Word on my comp) to create bullet points and footnotes for whichever text I'm reading. Mantano has this "Notes" thing going, so I think I'll try that out first.

It's typically fiction where I make a lot of in-column annotations (all my lit books from NYU are ruined with scribbling in the margins). Pretty much all my fiction is MOBI/EPUB, so I'm hoping Mantano will suffice for that.

For now, I've decided Mantano will be my default eReader. It's a badass app. My earliest critiques are:

1) I can't edit Author of unknown books individually. When I go to "Authors" in the left-hand column menu in the "My Bookshelf" tab: about half my PDF's show up in a folder labeled, "Show books without authors" and even checkboxing one-at-a-time before long pressing on this folder and editing won't allow separate changes to individual books in this folder. This is true for every field in this menu: Formats, Series, Languages, etc. Since the overwhelming majority of these books have different authors, this effectively cripples the feature; I can't edit the metadata.

2) I can't access the Calibre Content Server in the "My Feeds" section for OPDS catalogs. FB Reader and Coolreader won't access it, either. Right now, only Aldiko is working with this Calibre Content Server. So for that alone I'm retaining Aldiko.