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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Try this
Add a few of your text files to calibre, fix up any titles and author names that need fixing, convert the txt files into whatever format you want to use on the Sony (e.g. ePub) and send those files to the Sony.
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That is what I tried to do, but calibre will not accept them, issuing the message I quoted in my first post. I assumed this was because I had disposed of the opf files created by calibre at the same time that it created these txt files
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I think the conversion will create an opf in the book folder, which is actually irrelevant in this context.
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Apparently those opf files are what the Sony uses to construct its database. If I send the Sony the entire file and directory structure that calibre creates, its perfectly happy. But if I send it what sufficed for the iRiver reader, a single directory containing only the calibre generated txt files, then the Sony uses only the filenames and dumps everything into category "Other". The Sony doesn't reference directory names at all.
Unfortunately, when I originally created these txt files with calibre, I kept only the txt files themselves, and dumped all the directories and opf files that calibre also generated, along with then source epubs and pdfs that I had calibre convert to txt. Apparently calibre includes no metadata at all in the actual txt files it creates (it puts that in the generated opf), and now calibre refuses to work with those bare txt files, won't load them into its library. If I could get it to do that I could use calibre's Metadata Edit functions to create what the Sony needs.