[saxondawg]

At times I have reconverted some or all of my books, for various reasons (such as improvements in the program). Recently, with a new Kindle Fire, I discovered that I needed to go through and re-convert, taking out a certain pdoc code, so that the Fire would place my personal books in the books section rather than docs. (I'm persnickety about things like that, going to "Books" to find all my books.)

I've now noticed that a great number of my books have the metadata three times at the beginning of the book, one occurrence after the other. Now, if this is my biggest problem, I should be counting my blessings. But persnickety people rarely count blessings. They persnicket.

So I can actually live with this, but for one thing, I'm surprised this happened because it does suggest that when the books were reconverted, they didn't work from the original source file (very often an .epub with me). If they had, they wouldn't have re-added the metadata, right? Maybe I have this wrong, but that's my logic. I would think that in reconversion, the metadata should not be added on top of the OLD metadata.

First, does anyone know why this might have happened? Second, is there some non-nightmarish way to run a macro or simple plug-in that will check each file and make sure there is only one metadata file, eliminating dupes?

Again--it's a small thing, and I can live with it as is. But you know us perfectionists. I can't really go through a 1,000-book collection and individually re-edit all these files, so I'm stuck with multiple metas unless someone knows a batch way to fix it