Thread: metadata gotchas
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Old 09-01-2019, 05:33 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder View Post
Just discovered that some Android readers (e.g. Lithium) do not handle the dc:creator tags very well and will simply used the last one defined as the author, even if it actually has a meta tag that refines it to something else (like illustrator)

So the dc:creator tag for the primary author (or editor) needs to be last to avoid this bug.
Kobo devices do the opposite. They only take the first dc:creator tag. I use a metadata plugboard in calibre to workaround this. And similarly, with dc:identifier, they assume the first is the ISBN.
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