Thread: Save downloaded metadata in book
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Old 06-19-2020, 06:45 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Mamaijee View Post
I have a lot of epubs on my hard drive which do not have metadata.

I added a epub into Calibre from my desktop hard drive and then downloaded the metadata for it from the web. After the download I could see the metadata in the "Book Details" in the main interface. But when I saved the epub back on to my hard drive and opened the book, the metadata did not show in the book.

How do I save the downloaded metadata in the epub?

Thank you
mamaijee
Use the Polish tool or the ModifyEpub plugin. Calibre stores a copy of the metadata in it's database and in the metadata.opf in the book directory. The metadata is normally written to the epub when you use send to device or save to disk.

Simply copying the epub using the OS tools will not do the metadata update. And a bad habit to get into. Treat the calibre library as a black box and do not use your OS tools to manipulate the files.
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