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FrancisT · 01-21-2009, 06:45 AM

I have got a shedload of (mostly Baen) ebooks in Mobi format (either .mobi or older .prc extension). When I import them into Calibre they tend to be author "unknown" and not have other metadata fields filled consistently.

Is this a calibre problem? And if so is it soemthing that someone is working on fixing?

If not. Is there a way that I can examine the files to see if they are missing the meta-data? And how easy would it be to create a plugin that contacts (say) the Baen website to get the correct metadata for a file?

Now that I've imported all my books though I'm now having trouble manually adding metadata via the GUI. There is I see a way to add/modify metadata via the CLI. If I do this will it break things when I correct the Title/author fields?

[Alternatively I could probably use perl and sqlite support and edit the metadata.db file directly. I'm guessing this would be an even worse idea]

01-21-2009, 06:45 AM	#1
FrancisT Member Posts: 23 Karma: 65 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Cybook, Toshiba NB100	Mobi format metadata extraction issues I have got a shedload of (mostly Baen) ebooks in Mobi format (either .mobi or older .prc extension). When I import them into Calibre they tend to be author "unknown" and not have other metadata fields filled consistently. Is this a calibre problem? And if so is it soemthing that someone is working on fixing? If not. Is there a way that I can examine the files to see if they are missing the meta-data? And how easy would it be to create a plugin that contacts (say) the Baen website to get the correct metadata for a file? Now that I've imported all my books though I'm now having trouble manually adding metadata via the GUI. There is I see a way to add/modify metadata via the CLI. If I do this will it break things when I correct the Title/author fields? [Alternatively I could probably use perl and sqlite support and edit the metadata.db file directly. I'm guessing this would be an even worse idea]