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Old 04-23-2014, 12:38 AM   #67
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
Emphasis mine. So, this tells me I've missed something in Calibre that I should know how to do: "polish". I know about re-converting, and I've resorted to it when I had to, but I don't think I've ever seen anything about polishing a book. I'd love to find a solution that allows me to not have to reconvert to fix a books metadata, cover, etc., in the book.
calibre defaults to leaving the book as-is in the library, but will update all supported metadata in a book when sending to device or saving to disk.

Cover, btw, is only supported in EPUB/AZW3.

Polish Book will force calibre to update all that metadata on the copy inside the library as well. It only works on EPUB/AZW3, and will not even update title and stuff for .mobi and others.
Polish Book does not (by design) utilize plugboards.

Polish Book should only be necessary if you use Dropbox/calibre2opds/some other method of accessing the calibre library files directly. Or if you are using it's other functionality, of embedding a book jacket etc.

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