[CraftingGrandma]

Thank you for your help so far eschwartz.

I'm still unclear on a few things.

You say that the txt files have no meta data stored with them, then why and where does it get all the tags and cover I see when I look at the same book in the connected device part of calibre? Is there no way to transfer over the information showed there?

And the same goes for the pdf file too. Your suggestion of downloading the tags was a good one, but the problem I run into is I have created many of my own tags that are not ones normally associated with the books I would like kept. Which is part of why I am so concerned with getting the tags to transfer over.

For example, one of the txt files. When I click on it in the calibre library it has no tags and no visible cover. Yet when I click on the same book in the device I can see the cover picture I originally set to the book when I first transferred it to my sony. I also see all of this in the preview panel under the cover


Series: Grandkids Poems
Tags: Poetry, Not Professional Poetry
Path: Click to open
D:\North, Judy\first poems, The - judy.txt
Collections: (Series)Grandkids Poems, Poetry, Not Professional Poetry



And what I see for the same book after I add the book to calibre and look at it from the library section is it with no cover displayed and this in the preview panel


Formats: TXT
Path: Click to open





I have been going at my problem under the assumption that if calibre can see the tags on the device and the cover that there is a way for it to be copied over I just do not know how to make it do it, but is it the case that it is actually a limitation of the calibre program that it can not transfer all that it can see and read from the books?