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Old 08-01-2016, 09:21 PM   #4
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All you need to do is make sure the dual-MOBI is converted with the title initially set to your desired title.

The problem is updating an existing dual-MOBI.
Kindlegen won't update the metadata in an existing file at all -- it is a converter only, so you'd have to convert from an EPUB that was saved with the right plugboard. You could do that with calibre's ebook-convert too.
The problem is doing automated conversions in the calibre GUI when plugboards only apply during export.

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This is a bug, it is just not a high-priority one so no one has really bothered to fix it (and/or spend the time to test it). You generally should use MOBI or AZW3 on its own, dual-MOBI is not a very popular output format.
It basically only affects people who both use plugboards, and send dual-MOBI to Amazon's Personal Documents service (in order to make sure their AZW3-supporting devices get an AZW3 delivered to them).

The intersection of those two groups is not a very large group. And Kovid says the solution is fiddly and also would need testing -- by someone who actually uses dual-MOBI -- to make sure nothing breaks horribly. So it isn't worth the time for him to figure out how to implement it given how few people would benefit.

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