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Old 03-17-2017, 03:41 PM   #1
anthony.burton4
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Book metadata

I'm curious about a number of fields in the metadata of ebooks, I wonder if anyone could shed light on them.

MOBI's have a "Creator Software" field, together with Major Version, Minor Version and Build - anyone know to what this refers?

When I convert an epub to a mobi in calibre, the publication date is reset - is this always so, or is there a way to maintain original metadata?

If I convert a mobi to a mobi, the ASIN is altered to a 36 character string - to what does the new string refer?

Finally, some epubs I have, have calibre in the metadata: "<dc:contributor opf:role="bkp">calibre" I may have tweaked some stuff using calibre, but that's all, so not sure why is has it as "BooK Producer" - anyone enlighten me?

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Tony
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