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Old 03-15-2020, 10:03 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
I think the problem is that it is all or nothing. You can turn off updating the metadata when you save-to-disk, but, that means it doesn't update the Dublin Core metadata. All the ways of updating the metadata are like that. To produce a book to give to someone else and that you don't want them to see your personal metadata additions, you pretty much have to edit the metadata after exporting the book outside of calibre.
I guess that's why I make sure I have the dc elements correct after adding a book to my Intake library, I Polish it there with update metadata checked before I move it to my Books library.

Before Saving I flick through the EPUB in the Viewer to see if there any obvious bungles, and I press 't' to check the ToC and 'i' to check the metadata - if any custom columns snuck in I use Modify to remove them.

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Note: The OP has used the word "publish". If this is to actually publish the book to sell in a store, then I don't think the OP should expect calibre to produce the final result. I think they should be expecting to do some handling afterwards to clean up things like the metadata before publishing.
Even though I don't publish commercially, I do do a final tidy up in Sigil, which includes any tidying up of the DC metadata elements.

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