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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Hmm, this was more complicated than I expected. My books almost always arrive to my Kindle first. Then after a while I connect with Calibre and copy them to my library. After that I take the new books and download Metadata and book cover. If I understand you correctly I need to then match that data with what I have on the Kindle? Obviously I prefer the newly downloaded Metadata (it contains tags and descriptions). Are you trying to tell me I can move that new Metadata over to the books on the Kindle? Or do I have to delete them from the Kindle and then copy back from the library? Don't know how comfortable I am with that, considering how it reports back to Amazon on a regular basis.
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Yes, the metadata must be matched. You have two choices. You can tell calibre they are the same by using "Match Books" and update the cached metadata so calibre always knows they are the same, or send the book from calibre to the device.
The metadata cannot be copied over to the book, though. You will have to delete and copy from calibre. Amazon won't know a thing about it, though.
What I do to make this much easier is use a custom column called "Original Filename" which saves the value for all Amazon books, and my save path uses this to overwrite the old book, instead of deleting. It makes it very easy to update metadata on the book, and also lets me keep the Amazon pagenumbers, highlights, and other stuff they store in the .sdr folders.