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Originally Posted by roger64
This is really counter-intuitive...If I change the metadata, well, it's just to change them...Why ask for something more?
So, if I use calibre because I wish only to change the metadata, instead of changing them, plain and clean, I must after it tell calibre to save to disk?
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You have to do "something" to get your file out of Calibre's library - you either save the file to disk, or you tell Calibre to send it directly to the device. Either way, that is the point at which it re-writes the file with the current metadata. I'm afraid I really don't see anything in the least counter-intuitive about this; when your book "emerges" from Calibre it has the metadata you've requested. Why do you care at what point the metadata gets written to the file?
Consider the case of files which don't have metadata - text files, for example, or (to a lesser extent) HTML. The only place that Calibre can store metadata for these is in its own database.