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Old 05-06-2016, 05:58 PM   #1
MadDogJoey
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Looking for metadata location for book sort info

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I've spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I need someone's help. BTW, I am not a novice; I'm a computer technician, but I'll admit this has me stumped:
I've adjusted all the title and author sort info in Calibre (version 2.54.0) to display individual books, series and authors in perfect order. But when I import my 1900 epubs into iPad, they are all scattered -- author info is inconsistent (last first, first last, etc) and title sort info seems to be quite arbitrary, sometimes with series sort names added, sometimes not, etc etc.
I've tried editing the book and looking at "container.xml" and "content.opf" and "toc.ncx" folders and editing lines found there, but I can't believe it should be this hard!
Am I missing something simple? Why does Apple sort the books based on data that I can't easily find? Where is this data? HELLLLP!
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