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Originally Posted by GRiker
Start the calibre connector, then open the Device context menu by clicking the down arrow next to the Marvin icon. Then, click Configure this device.
On the Marvin options tab, enable Update metadata in the When sending books already in Marvin section.
If the books have the same author and title in both calibre and Marvin, the calibre metadata will be applied to Marvin when sending the book to Marvin. This will allow you to keep all of your Marvin assets while applying the current calibre metadata.
You can read more about how this works by opening the help file. Click the Help button to learn more (item #2, Marvin options).
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Thanks. I did in fact already have it set up that way, but what helped was your reference to "same author and title." I realized that the driver assumes that you never make changes to the author or title after downloading, or that if you're going to make changes in Calibre you first make the exact same changes in Marvin.
But I never bother to make changes to the metadata when I download a book to Marvin, because I know I'm going to do all necessary refining later in Calibre, which is my primary ebook "library." Specifically, in this case in Calibre I had added series names in brackets at the end of titles, which I always do. I just assumed I could send those metadata changes over to Marvin. But since the title fields have to match, I had to go into Marvin and change the titles so they too had the series names, to match the way I'd done in Calibre. And if I'd made any other such changes, like fixing an incorrect author name in Calibre, I'd have had to do the same thing.
So I do think there's still a need for a manual matching function. Without one, it will always be necessary to make a redundant edit in Marvin any time someone edits an author or title field in Calibre, and there are lots of reasons people do that. And since it's not always possible to remember all my various Calibre naming conventions (how did I name that series of which this is Book 14 - with or without a "the" at the beginning, have I been using the middle initial for that author, etc. etc.), that means I'll sometimes end up making those edits in Marvin while I'm sitting in front of the computer making the exact same changes in Calibre, which
really feels redundant.
So it would be great someday to be able to just tell the driver which two books go together and then update the metadata in Marvin that way!
(Also, just as a note - the matching doesn't seem to be working with books that have two authors with an ampersand between them, even when the author fields look absolutely identical in Calibre and Marvin ("Author A & Author B"). When I did it, Calibre still always sent a second copy of the book to the device. I did notice that in the device list on Calibre, the author names showed up as having two ampersands between them ("Author A && Author B"), even though on Marvin, there was only one - don't know if that could be the source of the problem.)