Thread: Clarify Size & Date fields in library and device views?
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Old 12-10-2013, 11:18 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Book matching on the device is a many layered thing. First for books that calibre sends, it records the book uuid in metadata.calibre. If that does not exists, then metadata based matching is performed. You can run calibre ind ebug mode in which case the in library column shows how the matching was performed. You can also manually tell calibre a book on the device matches a book in the library by right clicking ont he bookint he device view.
I completed missed that "metadata-based matching" step earlier. So, if uuids differ, then in metadata matching: if sizes are different, does calibre choose the device's size value or the library's size value?
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