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Old 04-27-2020, 07:46 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by toolman View Post
I used to get this before, i have to use the download metadata to get it now.
What part of "optional" are you having trouble with? The book you imported does not have the metadata you seem to be expecting to be there. I've seen books with excellent metadata and others that had the mandatory elements and not one byte more.

Here's a recent purchase's metadata.opf as shown by calibre's editor:

Spoiler:
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" unique-identifier="calibre_id" version="2.0">
  <metadata xmlns:calibre="http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/2009/metadata" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
    <dc:title>Firefall (Storms of War 4)</dc:title>
    <dc:creator opf:role="aut" opf:file-as="Unknown">Anson Carter</dc:creator>
    <dc:contributor opf:role="bkp" opf:file-as="calibre">calibre (4.14.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com]</dc:contributor>
    <dc:identifier id="calibre_id" opf:scheme="calibre">6aece49b-de21-481d-9891-e40a395c8014</dc:identifier>
    <dc:date>2020-03-27T00:00:00-07:00</dc:date>
    <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
    <dc:identifier opf:scheme="MOBI-ASIN">B0846T00C</dc:identifier>
    <meta content="horizontal-lr" name="primary-writing-mode"/>
  </metadata>
  <manifest>
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    <item id="id2" href="images/00002.jpeg" media-type="image/jpeg"/>
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    <item id="id43" href="text/part0025.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
    <item id="id44" href="text/part0026.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
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    <item id="id46" href="text/part0028.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
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    <item id="ncx" href="toc.ncx" media-type="application/x-dtbncx+xml"/>
  </manifest>
  <spine toc="ncx">
    <itemref idref="id18"/>
    <itemref idref="id19"/>
    <itemref idref="id20"/>
    <itemref idref="id21"/>
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  <guide>
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  </guide>
</package>


About the only human meaningful part of this is the title (with Amazon's habit of stuffing the series into the title) and the author. Strangely, that's what showed in the details pane. calibre can't add what isn't present.

Last edited by DNSB; 04-27-2020 at 07:52 PM.
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