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Old 12-13-2020, 09:45 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
The question seems to about how to get calibre to recognize book metadata from the existing file names. This is highly configurable. See Guessing metadata from file names to get started.

As JSWolf pointed out once a book is added calibre will copy it to its own folders using its own file naming convention that cannot be configured.
I know this can be a sore subject but if a lot of these eBooks don't have proper metadata, where did they come from?

And even if they are legit and don't have proper metadata, you can fix that with the Calibre editor as long as they are either ePub or KF8.
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