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Originally Posted by hobnail
Even though I have a Kobo I buy all my books from Amazon and I don't think they ever put the series information in the metadata. But why should they? Unlike the Kobo the Kindle doesn't really use the series information in a useful way. Fortunately with calibre I only need to fix the series info in calibre's database and do not need to edit the book's metadata/opf file (which I could do in Sigil after I've converted it to EPUB). Although calibre appears to be adding the series info into the EPUB's metadata when I convert it to EPUB, if I added the series info to the book before I converted it. I could swear that it didn't do that but maybe I'm misremembering it. Or maybe calibre is adding the metadata info to the EPUB when I change it in calibre? Again, I thought it didn't do that.
Edit: I just did a test and it looks like it's doing it (adding the series info) during the conversion from Kindle to EPUB. Thank you Kovid!
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I think you're right. Actually, the first thing I do when I add a book to Calibre is have Calibre download metadata. The info must be available somewhere online because Calibre generally finds it as long as the title and author are correct and when I click on the title it finds it populates those fields.