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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why do you care at what point the metadata gets written to the file?
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I like to use on my Reader PDF files in 9x12cm format that I create for this purpose. I had bad experiences last year with calibre. I realized that collection and metadata info regarding PDF files just disappeared after some weeks on my Reader when the metadata had been modified and sent by calibre for whatever reason. It was just instable. A reset and it was gone. So I do not trust anymore calibre for sending PDF files to my Sony PRS-505.
This behaviour being unacceptable, at least for me, I switched to a small freeware to just write my metadata on PDF files. After that I copy manually the files to the Reader and, since that time, I lost not one metadata for any PDF file.The only hitch is that I do not know how to add collections...
Between two evils, I chose what appeared to be the lesser one. And I hoped I could use calibre this way, just to write metadata for collection purpose....But it seems that a "tag" is not enough...
To conclude with intuition:
Suppose I have a PDF file on my desktop. In order to install it nicely in my Reader
- I import it into calibre. It creates a copy of it in a calibre folder somewhere in my Documents folder.
- I check and modify the metadata using calibre. I click OK.
If, now, I open this file, I will see that the metadata changes have NOT been taken into account.
You tell me calibre is waiting some other order or move. If for some reason (Reader is away, whatever), I decide to postpone the installation on the Reader, where will this additional metadata information be stored? Will it be lost? But I clicked OK...
Sorry, but this behaviour looks a little too complicated for me. When I click OK for the changes, I expect them to be done or I should see a kind of warning like "Your intended changes will be implemented when..."
You tell me I am wrong. Well, I'm probably cheaply wired