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Originally Posted by Sabardeyn
Hairy Scot,
When you transfer a book from calibre's library to a reading device, there are certain things that occur. The metadata is updated (if it needs it) and various changes are made to the internal structure of the ebook. This can include a wide variety of things, including whether or not the book should have a cover image inside the ebook file. It also includes converting one ebook format to another.
Many of these options can be manually set in the Output settings. This allows users to optimize a book for their unique situation. So long as calibre's library has all the original data, you can create as many device specific ebooks as needed. (Keeping this data safe is why user's are told never to go into calibre's files and manually do stuff - you risk losing your data.)
Calibre does a fine job at automating things, but the process can never be completely automatic, although calibre comes close.
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I am actually quite happy with Calibre, Calibre Companion, and Moon+.
The thing with the covers and titles is just a minor annoyance.
Everything looks fine in Calibre, and in the Calibre Companion shelf.
There are just a number of books whose titles and covers do not show correctly in Moon+ shelves. The covers are being generated by Moon+ and the titles show as numeric strings like "00138670013 05660760_02".
As far as I can see, all of the books involved are in mobi format so I guess Moon+ is not finding what it expects in the book file.
Perhaps I should try converting one to epub in Calibre and see if that makes a difference.
(It would keep me out of mischief for a while.
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