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@tlrowley: The change to the album name was a necessary tweak in 0.7.3. The 'Name' field is the real title of the book. The album field is only visible in iTunes.
The string of characters you see in the album field is the uuid for the book, a unique string for each book. In a nutshell, I need a way to positively identify a book on the device. Suppose that you send 'The War of the Wurlds' to the device (typo intended), then later correct the title to 'The War of the Worlds'. Calibre's metadata title is now different than the title on the device. I have to find and delete the obsolete copy before sending the updated one, and the only way I can do that is with a guaranteed-to-match characteristic, the uuid.
iTunes offers three search fields - name, artist and album. I had to shoehorn the uuid into one of those fields, and since name and artist are used in the iBooks UI, it had to be album, which is fairly meaningless in the context of a book.
Probably more than you wanted to know, but that's the reasoning behind the change.
And, as you discovered, I couldn't append the series name and number to Series titles, because then the 'On Device' checkmark wouldn't recognize the renamed book on the device.
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