Manual?
Did you use Calibre's
Save to disk to send the book to the device?
My workflow once I have the Calibre Metadata My Way
is to use the Polish tool to embed (and de-clutter)
so the Library copy is ready .
This is what I see in the (Library copy) Books OPF
Code:
<meta name="calibre:title_sort" content="Field of Dishonor" />
<meta name="calibre:series" content="Honor Harrington" />
<meta name="calibre:series_index" content="4.0" />
<meta name="calibre:author_link_map" content="{"David Weber": ""}" />
<meta name="calibre:timestamp" content="2009-10-18T07:00:00+00:00" />