MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Problems finding Comic Book metadata in Calibre

Inukami · 04-09-2018, 02:28 AM

I don't read comics unfortunately so I can't help in that area. But I do read Japanese manga. I find that the Amazon JP metadata finder works perfectly and finds all the metadata and covers perfectly for those. Now I just need to format them correctly as getting blank pages in between and work out which file extension is best. I prefer iBooks for reading but may use Marvin for the manga if decide to go with CBX/CBR. I tried using the iOS ComicRack app for comics and that seemed to work quite nicely but they stopped updating it for the iOS.

Can you find your comics on Amazon because I would have thought if you can, this metadata would be available? I don't understand how book and comic files are different, I guess it is the images that Calibre deals with them differently?

Inukami

04-09-2018, 02:28 AM	#47
Inukami Zealot Posts: 145 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Australia Device: Mac Pro 2013 & Mini 2018, iPad Mini 4, iPhone 11, iBooks, K4Mac/PC	I don't read comics unfortunately so I can't help in that area. But I do read Japanese manga. I find that the Amazon JP metadata finder works perfectly and finds all the metadata and covers perfectly for those. Now I just need to format them correctly as getting blank pages in between and work out which file extension is best. I prefer iBooks for reading but may use Marvin for the manga if decide to go with CBX/CBR. I tried using the iOS ComicRack app for comics and that seemed to work quite nicely but they stopped updating it for the iOS. Can you find your comics on Amazon because I would have thought if you can, this metadata would be available? I don't understand how book and comic files are different, I guess it is the images that Calibre deals with them differently? Inukami