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Old 02-08-2014, 06:00 AM   #119
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Originally Posted by hbtaylor View Post
I'm doing some metadata cleanup. After I make some edits, I have been selecting all of the books that show as "On Device" and clicking the "Send to Device" button. It updates the metadata for all of those items (since that is what I told it to do in the plugin configuration). Is that the best/preferred way?

I liked how Calibre Companion for Android updates the metadata when you connect, but understand that we might not want Marvin XD to do that. But I was just wondering if I was doing it the right/best way, and that I wouldn't be causing myself problems with the way I am doing it now.

Thanks!
That's the easiest method to refresh Marvin's metadata from the changes you've made in calibre, and it won't cause any problems.

The approach you've described doesn't actually require Marvin XD. Here's another approach to updating the metadata using Marvin XD.

Marvin XD lets you see which books have changed metadata - they will be displayed with a yellow background - and to see what specific metadata has been changed. Double-click the title of a book listed with a yellow background to see a metadata comparison.

You can do a bulk update of the books with changed metadata by selecting all books highlighted in yellow, right-click one of the selected titles, then selecting 'Export metadata from calibre to Marvin' from the context menu.

Either approach delivers the same end result - calibre's metadata is applied to Marvin.

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