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Old 11-18-2013, 05:56 PM   #9
JonMoss
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Originally Posted by latepaul View Post
It's not 'syncing' which implies something automatic and not needing interaction, but you can copy the metadata.opf file from the laptop and load it on the linux machine using calibredb set_metadata. You'll need to identify the id of the book you want to update but that's easily done. It's the number in brackets in the folder name or you can get it from a list with 'calibredb list'.
I may try this on one or two of the ebooks I updated the metadata on today. I'll make a backup copy first of the metadata.opf file before I overwrite it.

Thanks, Jon
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