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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
Merely importing a book into Calibre adds the metadata. As I understand it, that's a prerequisite to being able to use Calibre's TOC Editor on it...
EDIT: As for an example, I just added an EPUB into my Calibre library, did nothing to it, and used Save to Disk to make a copy. It made the following OPF changes that I consider "dirtying it up":
- Removed the BOM from the file, making it an improper UTF-8 file.
- Moved the title below the author, removing the indentation in the process.
- Modified the date/time.
- Removed the (empty) subject field.
- Inserted Calibre-specific metadata: title_sort, user_categories, and author_link_map (also with botched indentation)
- Inserted a contributor credit for itself.
- Inserted a second, Calibre-specific, identifier field.
You may be fine with those changes. I am not. |
I believe it's the Save-to-disk which is updating the metadata, not the import or the TOC Edit. I haven't tested this but try Import, then TOC edit then copy (
not move, or you'll mess up the library) from calibre library directory to
whereever using the Op Sys. I realise this is not 'recommended practice' but if you're careful it may give you what you want.