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Originally Posted by JahMike
New on this forum, I have been struggling for quite some time with my inability to have my edited metadata in calibre desktop stick to my epub files.
The moment the books need are added back to my calibre library, my edited metadata are gone, and back are the original ones.
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Since I'm unsure what you are doing, here is what I know.
You need to update the metadata in calibre itself. Updating the metadata in the book outside of calibre then replacing the existing book in calibre with the updated book will fail. The metadata has to be updated in calibre because the metadata in calibre will automatically update the metadata in a book whenever one of the below actions happens.
Metadata is updated within the book file itself during the following calibre functions.
- Send a Book to a device (metadata updated in sent book)
- Save a book to disk (metadata updated in saved book)
- Send via Email (metadata updated in emailed book)
- Convert a book (metadata updated in the converted library copy of book)
- Embed metadata (metadata updated in library copy of book)
- Polish a book (metadata updated in designated format of library copy of book)
- Modify Epub (metadata updated in designated format of library copy of book)
Metadata is not updated inside the library copy of the book by simply updating the metadata in calibre.
It looks like theducks told you how to update the metadata in calibre from your book.
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Originally Posted by theducks
Open the MDE on the book: Select the format: Use the icon on the lower left (Set Metadata for the book from the selected format)
This is the reverse of Embed. It will update the Library data (Now it makes sense, why you added again. It reads that on add.) This way is faster.
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I hope this helps.