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Soonerlater · 05-08-2020, 02:24 PM

If I can manually supply the correct ISBN, is there a way to have Calibre extract the proper Title and Author name from ISBN lookup, then use that to extract data to automatically change the book (a .MOBI) to reflect the correct title and author? And, if yes, would the changes be written into the actual file or only in the Calibre library database?

I have 93 MOBI files with incorrect titles and authors in the metadata (and in the Calibre Library). I want to save them to disk (not merely in the Calibre Library) with the proper metadata in the actual files.

Can this be automated somehow by just manually supplying the correct ISBN?

This seems like a question that's probably been asked a lot before, but I searched and couldn't find any threads on it. Probably a poor search structure on my part, but I did try.

05-08-2020, 02:24 PM	#1
Soonerlater Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2018 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Automatically Change Title & Author Metadata from ISBN? If I can manually supply the correct ISBN, is there a way to have Calibre extract the proper Title and Author name from ISBN lookup, then use that to extract data to automatically change the book (a .MOBI) to reflect the correct title and author? And, if yes, would the changes be written into the actual file or only in the Calibre library database? I have 93 MOBI files with incorrect titles and authors in the metadata (and in the Calibre Library). I want to save them to disk (not merely in the Calibre Library) with the proper metadata in the actual files. Can this be automated somehow by just manually supplying the correct ISBN? This seems like a question that's probably been asked a lot before, but I searched and couldn't find any threads on it. Probably a poor search structure on my part, but I did try.