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Liudprand · 06-30-2022, 07:59 PM

It's basically all in the title.

I have quite a few side-loaded epub files, and if I run into these problems, they're generally fixable by converting from epub to mobi and back again (albeit not perhaps the most sophisticated solution!).

But I've just side-loaded a few pdfs onto my Kobo Libra 2, and have the following issues:

1. One or two books show what I guess were the original covers, not the ones I downloaded and added in the metadata.

2. Several of the books show completely wrong author and title information. In one case, the author is given as "Unknown" and the title is the ISBN-10 of the book in question - even though I can't find that in any of the metadata either via Calibre or via Windows Explorer.

To be clear: all details are correct when I view the books in Calibre - it's only when they arrive on the reader that everything goes south.

Obviously, there's no option with a pdf of using my favourite method of conversion to another format and then converting back again.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received...

06-30-2022, 07:59 PM	#1
Liudprand Zealot Posts: 133 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2021 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Side-loaded pdfs not displaying title, author, covers correctly in some cases on Kobo It's basically all in the title. I have quite a few side-loaded epub files, and if I run into these problems, they're generally fixable by converting from epub to mobi and back again (albeit not perhaps the most sophisticated solution!). But I've just side-loaded a few pdfs onto my Kobo Libra 2, and have the following issues: 1. One or two books show what I guess were the original covers, not the ones I downloaded and added in the metadata. 2. Several of the books show completely wrong author and title information. In one case, the author is given as "Unknown" and the title is the ISBN-10 of the book in question - even though I can't find that in any of the metadata either via Calibre or via Windows Explorer. To be clear: all details are correct when I view the books in Calibre - it's only when they arrive on the reader that everything goes south. Obviously, there's no option with a pdf of using my favourite method of conversion to another format and then converting back again. Any suggestions would be gratefully received...