[COLEY54321]

Hi all Calibre fans,

Having just bought an iPad, I read up on the best way to organise my pdfs and occasional epubs, and I was advised to use Calibre and the OPDS content sever so I could access my library when not at home.

I have spent a long time correctly renaming and tagging all my books within Calibre. When I search the OPDS through an app such as Stanza or Megareader, the titles and authors are all listed correctly. However, when I download a pdf I want to read, it downloads with the original Title / author, not the corrected one I have written in Calibre. In a hypothetical example, the book might originally be called "12345.pdf". This was drag and dropped into Calibre and the title correctly changed to "Jane Eyre". When downloaded to Stanza it shows as "12345.pdf" in the library books.

From doing a bit of research my understanding is that because of design limitations of Calibre, it does not / cannot write the corrected metadata to the file (unless you save to disk or send to device).

Are there any plans to correct what seems like a design limitation? Is there a way I can get this to work in Stanza or any other OPDS capable app, otherwise this whole process has been a big waste of time for me; as I now have this lovely Calibre database, but incorrect Titles when using OPDS (which was the main reason I was attracted me to using Calibre in the first place).

A work around might be to 'Save to disk' and create a new database? But not sure how to do this or how successful it would be, and seems a rather convoluted way of achieving a rather basic aim; i.e. data I write to the database should also be written to the files in all instances where possible?? Any help on this would be appreciated.

I do appreciate there must be a designed reason for not allowing this and if it were 'that simple' you would have already done it, but it does seem like a rather big negative / let down to an otherwise amazing program.