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rheostaticsfan · 12-16-2009, 01:07 PM

I've been using mobi2mobi GUI (VB v06). I have spent the last week getting all the metadata in about 300 books to have the content I want. (descriptions and author names as Lastname, Firstname and applying the Genres I wanted to my books).

After fixing things so everything looked ok in mobi2mobi I deleted the associated .mpb files to make sure that nothing I'd entered would be overwritten by mpb metadata.

Then when I opened the files with mobipocket desktop approximately 10% display with incorrect data. For example, a Genre might be displayed in mobipocket desktop as "novels" but when I open the file in mobi2mobi it clearly says "General Fiction" in the Genre field.

What can I do now?!? I've tried setting them in the "exth type" fields as well as the fields higher up on the page. It's not clear to me how they differ: I've looked but can't find any documentation to help me understand the fields and the tool wrt those fields.

Please help. I feel like I"m banging my head against the wall.

12-16-2009, 01:07 PM	#303
rheostaticsfan Zealot Posts: 107 Karma: 591 Join Date: May 2008 Device: kindle, iOS, Blackberry, Sony DPT (pdfs)	getting frustrated: can you help me? I've been using mobi2mobi GUI (VB v06). I have spent the last week getting all the metadata in about 300 books to have the content I want. (descriptions and author names as Lastname, Firstname and applying the Genres I wanted to my books). After fixing things so everything looked ok in mobi2mobi I deleted the associated .mpb files to make sure that nothing I'd entered would be overwritten by mpb metadata. Then when I opened the files with mobipocket desktop approximately 10% display with incorrect data. For example, a Genre might be displayed in mobipocket desktop as "novels" but when I open the file in mobi2mobi it clearly says "General Fiction" in the Genre field. What can I do now?!? I've tried setting them in the "exth type" fields as well as the fields higher up on the page. It's not clear to me how they differ: I've looked but can't find any documentation to help me understand the fields and the tool wrt those fields. Please help. I feel like I"m banging my head against the wall.