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Originally Posted by Zipr
Is metadata stored in the files (books)? I thought all that was stored in the database file. If metadata was in the files then you should be able to recreate a lost library from the files themselves, which I don't think you can do.
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That's correct. The metadata is stored in the database. The original ebooks are not modified in any way. That is a big mantra of Kovid's to not every modify or delete your source ebook files.
So, if you only have the ebook files and you loose the database then the edited metadata is gone.
Of course, if you have converted the files to another format that new metadata will be in it... but not all of it.
If you do a save to disk it can save out a file that contains all your metadata... so doing a "save to disk" is like doing a backup of your library. If you do an import from your "save to disk" folder then it will recover all your metadata also.
BOb