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Old 08-25-2015, 10:30 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Correct. In fact, it would be more correct to say you changed the metadata for the book record, not the EPUB attached to the book record.
If you are changing the metadata for the book record it sounds like it should change it for all formats of that book but it doesn't so what am I missing here?

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You can look at the metadata a couple ways.

You can use the command-line tool `ebook-meta`, but I think we'll skip that one.
You can edit the book (if EPUB or AZW3) and look at the OPF. In XML. I think we'll skip that one too.

Winner:
You can open the book in the calibre ebook-viewer (View --> Choose format), and use the toolbar option "Show book metadata".
You can also just use Embed metadata to make sure it's up to date.
Yes, the winner is more up my alley, thanks.

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On second thought, I believe identifiers is one of the things MOBI/AZW3 just doesn't really support.
EPUB, on the other hand, supports arbitrary custom metadata types.

Was this an AZW3?
Yep. That's probably it then. It only seems to keep isbn and mobi-asin and deletes the rest, even the Amazon identifier. The Quality Check plug-in that you suggested will embed the Amazon identifier though, if I've already added it to the metadata, as the mobi-asin.
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