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Originally Posted by shamanNS
@Rellwood: Are you sending to Amazon (to Kindle's email address?) mobi type "both" (in order to get KF8/azw3 file delivered to your Kindle) or mobi type "old"?
If you're using plain old mobi then you can just use metadata plugboard template which targets format "mobi" and device "email" (instead of the usual "kindle2") to change the title metadata. Then you just send the book using Calibre (Connect/Share > Email to xyz@kindle.com) and plugboards rule will do the title change for you.
No need to "mangle" title metadata for "master copy" file inside Calibre library and revert the changes after sending the book to "cloud".
IIRC Calibre still doesn't do correct job when editing metadata for mobi type "both"( aka "combo" aka "dual mobi") files so you can't use that approach if you're converting to mobi type "both" and sending that... |
I'm sending it "old", through the email to kindle. So, plug boards don't help in this case. I don't think I can get the .azw3 to show mail. I always convert to .mobi and then send. I don't send through Calibre, but the Send to Kindle app. Sending through Calibre takes too long, until I figure out how to keep it from taking 500 seconds between emails. (I'm sure I can do it, but I haven't done it yet)
As far as being able to use the plugboard to send to kindle without mangling the titles, I am a bummed to have not known this before now, before I have added some 1600 books to Kindle and have meticulously set them into their proper cloud collections...