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Originally Posted by Bobioden
I used to use Modify Epub all the time. But then read that Polish Book did the same thing. Thanks, I will go back to Modify Epub.
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Bobioden - First my understanding of your requirement
- You want to use your regular email client to send an epub to your sister.
- You do NOT want to share your rating with your sister and/or you sister would prefer not to see your rating - perhaps she uses the presence of a rating to indicate she has finished reading the book.
If my understanding is wrong - then read no further
Even though Rating is a prepackaged column within the context of calibre, it is not written to the epub as a Dublin Core metadata element, because rating is not one of the 15 basic elements. See
Dublin Core - Wikipedia and beyond if you want to probe deeper; matchsticks recommended for the propping of eyes wide open
The following attachments show
- the metadata for a Book via the Edit Metadata screen
- the settings I used in Polish Book
- the metadata embedded in the book after Polish Book
- the settings i used in Modify Book
- the metadata embedded in the book after Modify Book
You may be able to use a plugboard to achieve the same results and use calibres email facility, but I cant tell you how to do that.
What I have outlined is how a number of colleagues and myself have been sharing epubs via regular email on a daily basis for nearly 3 years. We don't use calbre's email facility because we exchange data other than ebooks - spreadsheets, audio/video interviews, lecture notes, photographs of pets and happy birthday wishes etc. We avoid sharing metadata other than the dc:elements because we ran into ereader hiccups when we did, some of my colleagues don't use calibre and those that do want to manage their calibre libraries in their own way.
BR