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Lorkoff · 03-03-2015, 10:58 AM

In Preferences>Import/Export>Adding books, there is an option: Read metadata from file contents rather than file name. It seems you have to have either one or the other. Is it possible to have both? Let me explain. I have my files names named exactly the way I want them (LastName, First Name - Title). Unfortunately, the metadata of some files sometimes has them arranged in another way. On occasion, it is spectacularly wrong. Therefore I wish to maintain the read file name option. However, if I do this, I lose the other features of the metadata, such as cover and language (many of my books are in languages other than English), so I would like Calibre to read the author and title from my file name but the other data from the metadata. Is this possible? Thanks.

03-03-2015, 10:58 AM	#1
Lorkoff Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle	Read metadata from file contents In Preferences>Import/Export>Adding books, there is an option: Read metadata from file contents rather than file name. It seems you have to have either one or the other. Is it possible to have both? Let me explain. I have my files names named exactly the way I want them (LastName, First Name - Title). Unfortunately, the metadata of some files sometimes has them arranged in another way. On occasion, it is spectacularly wrong. Therefore I wish to maintain the read file name option. However, if I do this, I lose the other features of the metadata, such as cover and language (many of my books are in languages other than English), so I would like Calibre to read the author and title from my file name but the other data from the metadata. Is this possible? Thanks.