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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Actually, the metadata support in ePUB2 is quite good. The only thing that I am really missing is the option for series metadata. I know Calibre uses a custom metadata field, but it is not in the official specs.
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I took a quick look at the epub 3 specs, and there's no significant change in its metadata requirements over epub 2. In particular it still doesn't look like there's any concept of "series"
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
The main problem is not the allowable metadata, but the reluctance by publishers to actually use it. The fields that are there, are mostly used by the library programs and not by the readers. The readers usually only support what they think the most useful are.
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Are the reader devices the most important consumers of metadata, or is it the stores?