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Old 05-10-2020, 04:56 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Turtle91 View Post
As far as I know you can't 'reference' metadata within the document. Metadata is for the device/app to read.

What's wrong with a simple copy/paste?? K.I.S.S. philosophy is the best philosophy as far as ePubs are concerned.
Yup, as Turtle says, I've never seen or stumbled across or been able to code any way to "get" or fetch metadata and display it inside an eBook.

Believe me, I wish I could. I waste more damn time, with customers, giving me the wrong freaking ISBNs and then having to go fix them in 3+ places. I wish there was a simple, one-step solution, but there isn't any way, even inside an eBook, really (never mind in the meta) to enter something once (other than an image) and then have it fetched and displayed.

(Yes, as Doits says, there might be a way in ePUB3, but as he also says, it's overkill.)

Sorry.

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