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Both of you seem to have completely missed my point. I agree, downloaded tags are a mess & I always enter my own. (Sometimes I'll start with downloaded metadata but I've never yet seen any I accept without changing something about it.) I'll try to describe this better. I import a book & convert it to epub. I download the metadata then fix it myself. In the example case that includes setting the series to Charlie Chan. It also includes erasing any existing tags & entering my own. Then I view the book & select 'Show Metadata'. Presto-the metadata now showing says the series is Biggers. The metadata showing is *not* the metadata I entered. That metadata is still in Calibre-but not in the Calibre book viewer. When I transfer the book to my reader tags from both sets of metadata show up-so in Calibre I have a list of 30 tags. In my reader I have a list of something like 200 tags. I'm pretty sure the strange metadata is embedded in the book-but where? I can't find it when I edit the book. The metadata *I* enter is apparently stored in the metadata.opf file. Presumably those books that display that metadata in the viewer either don't have any embedded metadata (i.e. it's a priority thing) or else something has caused Calibre to replace the originally embedded metadata with the metadata I've entered. Either way would fix the apparent problem but that's not the question I've asked-I'm pretty sure I can fix the problem myself if I can find out where the metadata is embedded. Anybody know that? Thanks.
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