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Old 12-13-2020, 07:36 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
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.
From my experience, from a legitimate store. Most of the books I have gotten from Kobo and Amazon have little metadata, or it is terrible. And as the OP mentioned comics, I have bought a couple of comic bundles for members of my family, and the file names were pretty useless. I fixed the file names to have the title before adding them to calibre.


@wisbit: As @theducks said, the GetFileName Plugin can put the full path of the file into custom columns and then you can the search-and-replace to set the correct details. But, I would probably use a file renamer, or script, to change the file names to include the appropriate details and then add the renamed file to calibre. @jhowell pointed to the way to get the metadata from the file names. It cannot use the directory name, hence the rename is needed.
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