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allanahk · 11-11-2018, 04:02 AM

Hi everyone, long time calibre user and mobilereads lurker here and I've created an account just to ask a question that noone else has asked as I far as I can find. I'll explain what the issue is:

I have a Kindle and a large library of books organised in calibre. My kindle doesn't tell me any information about my books which is very inconvenient for me, especially for reading long series as it's difficult to know what book comes next and a hassle when browsing my books on the kindle.

My workaround for this is as follows:

1. Convert book files to add a metadata jacket for each book in calibre with custom columns (word count), series number and description from the comments section etc

2. Merge all books in a series using the plugin Epubmerge and save as a new book file titled "____ Anthology" with a description in the comments taken as a list of titles in the series

3. This is where the issue is - I then want to add a final metadata jacket to the anthology books that describes the entire series, however when I try this it instead overwrites the jacket of the first book in the series rather than adding a new one.

Hence my question is, is there a way to add a metadata jacket during file conversion that does NOT overwrite an existing jacket?
Thanks in advance!

11-11-2018, 04:02 AM	#1
allanahk Connoisseur Posts: 71 Karma: 2202292 Join Date: Nov 2018 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Stop overwriting metadata jacket on conversion (instead add another one)? Hi everyone, long time calibre user and mobilereads lurker here and I've created an account just to ask a question that noone else has asked as I far as I can find. I'll explain what the issue is: I have a Kindle and a large library of books organised in calibre. My kindle doesn't tell me any information about my books which is very inconvenient for me, especially for reading long series as it's difficult to know what book comes next and a hassle when browsing my books on the kindle. My workaround for this is as follows: 1. Convert book files to add a metadata jacket for each book in calibre with custom columns (word count), series number and description from the comments section etc 2. Merge all books in a series using the plugin Epubmerge and save as a new book file titled "____ Anthology" with a description in the comments taken as a list of titles in the series 3. This is where the issue is - I then want to add a final metadata jacket to the anthology books that describes the entire series, however when I try this it instead overwrites the jacket of the first book in the series rather than adding a new one. Hence my question is, is there a way to add a metadata jacket during file conversion that does NOT overwrite an existing jacket? Thanks in advance!