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Originally Posted by ACGAuthor
My apologies if these have already been asked. I've searched the forums but I can't seem to find anything that answers my question.
A few questions (probably very obvious answers that I'm missing):
First, I am using the "General Metadata" 3-part method to add series tagging (I only discovered this new method eschwartz posted today, and I'm not entirely certain what all it does so I haven't tried it yet.) The only thing I changed on the General Metadata method was that I made the hyphenated version 6,-,6 instead of 4,-,4 because nothing is more annoying than seeing a hyphen "Mountains" abbreviated to "Moun-ains".  12 letters seems to be a good cut-off with the one-word series I have.
Anyway. When I first installed the plugboard, it worked great. Exactly as it was meant to. And when I changed the 4s to 6s, it did what I wanted it to with the titles (though I'm not entirely sure how to get it to update those titles on my PW (v1) except for removing the books and re-sideloading them.)
However. When I cashed in my gift cards and bought a new batch of ebooks and tried to add them, it would not send them to the PW with the series in the titles. So I have some books on the PW with (for example) "[ABCD] Book in ABCD series" and then more recent ones from that same series with just "Book in ABCD series". I don't know why it's not doing the changes for the most recent additions (likely I'm missing something, but I can't find what.)
Second: When I have a series with an ampersand in the title (ex. "Fine & Dandy") the abbreviated form comes out "F& D." Is there some way to get rid of that space between the ampersand and the second initial?
Third: Has anyone figured out how to do a plugboard to strip the "personal" banner from mobi docs with PDOC the personal doc field rather than having to re-convert the files? I saw it mentioned as a possibility in another thread about getting rid of the personal banner but the person discussing it hadn't had any success. Has someone cracked this problem, yet?
Thank you so much and happy holidays! |
The one I just posted was a customized plugboard that used a specific custom column to meet an esoteric need. Chances are you don't need exactly the same thing as nynaevelan.
But we can help you figure out what
YOU need.
Firstly, you are correct. The only way to get the updated metadata onto the Kindle is to update the book file. (Though other readers can be different. I believe the Kobo handles this with a database calibre can directly inform of the changes.)
Can you post the exact set of plugboards you are using and an example book title you wish to see?
And I'm afraid there's no getting around the PDOC problem. All ebooks are considered PDOCs unless they have an ASIN (amazon identifier metadata) that matches a book in the Kindle Store. If a book comes from Amazon and has not been converted, it will keep that ASIN. Otherwise, Amazon cannot match it to anything on their servers and will instead give it the PDOC banner.