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Old 06-27-2013, 10:34 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by georgetoon View Post
I'm using Calibre and want to rename books I downloaded form Project Gutenberg.

I downloaded all 14 Wizard of Oz books. Using a page in Wikipedia, I was able to determine the order of the books. In Calibre, I edited the metadata and renamed the title and title sort to "Book 1 -title of Oz book, Book 2, title of Oz book, etc." So, in Calibre, simply by looking, I know that "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz" is the fourth book because I renamed it "Book 4 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz."

However, when I send these books via Calibre to my Kindle, some of the titles are not translating. For instance, "Book 1 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" still reads "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." No change. So now I have some titles which are numbered and other titles that are simply the original title.

It's confusing because I want to look at the Kindle directory and know by the title which book is the first second, third, etc.

Does anyone know what else I can do to correct this?

(I'm using Calibre 0.9.15 and a Kindle Keyboard)
First, upgrade to the latest version of Calibre.

Then using Polish Books, update the metadata of all the books and you will be good to go.

What you have done is add the metadata to the database, but the books still contain the incorrect metadata and the metadata from the books is what your Reader is reading.
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