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Originally Posted by davidfor
OK, because of the way the Kobo handles the author in the first place, it only has one author. When calibre is copying the book back, it must be relying on the metadata from the database. But, the full metadata is still inside the book. If after copying it back to the library, if you open the metadata edit screen and press the button to retrieve the metadata from the file, it should still all be there. I'll check that it works how I think it does when I have a chance.
But, if you are doing a mass fetch from the device, you may as well do it from the file system. That will work the same as putting a new book into calibre.
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I only tried the mass copy from Kobo to Calibre once. Since then I've created a backup folder for the Kobo and copied to/from there so I only use Calibre to copy new ebooks to the Kobo when I don't pass them through Sigil and to the Kobo directly.
What I have noticed is that Calibre seems to add the author name to the file name based on the file-as entry. Whether it is getting that information from the epub's metadata or the Kobo database, I haven't tried to find out.
For 1633, the content.opf file has the following two line:
<dc:creator opf:file-as="Flint, Eric" opf:role="aut">Eric Flint</dc:creator>
<dc:creator opf:role="aut">David Weber</dc:creator>
When the file was copied to my Kobo from one of Baen's bound-in CDs (Torch of Freedom as far as I recall), it had 1633.epub as the filename while Calibre copied it back as 1633 - Eric Flint.epub but the author column showed Eric Flint & David Weber. I tried renaming the epub on the Kobo (think it was the wifi version) as 1633 - Eric Flint & David Weber but still showed up as 1633 - Eric Flint.epub. Swapping the authors in the content.opf copied over as 1633 - David Weber.epub. Oddly, all the versions were seen by Calibre as duplicates when they were being copied from the Kobo but none of them matched the version on the Kobo for the on device display.
Regards,
David