I had a hard time recovering from a screw-up recently; I used calibre-web to access the metadata.db file while my calibre client also had access, AND accidentally used lazylibrarian which then tried to manipulate the database and corrupted it.
Fast forward 3 days and now I have 3 calibre libraries; one for my client that I connect to my kobo device, one for the calibre-web service which is basically created/updated by an rsync from my master calibre library, and another completely separated one for cleaning up new books, etc.
My questions is this:
If I manage an epub file and I have adjusted some of the metadata such as the id links for goodreads/amazon, comment/description or even the book cover, do my epub files get converted with these newer metadata values?
For example, I downloaded a couple of common-creative epub files with some rather plain cover art, and an underwhelming comment. I then used calibre to download the metadata for that book, made it look nice and ready to send to my kobo.
What exactly is being sent to my kobo using the calibre program? Is it only the original .EPUB file that I imported, or is it the .EPUB file adjusted to fit all the newer changes I made to them? If I were to use my Windows Explorer to copy over the same .EPUB file referenced in calibre, are the same files sent over with the same metadata?
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks!