Many of the Baen Mobipocket files have poor or non-existent metadata.
Best bet for automating the metadata, at least a bit, is to enter their* ISBN and try to get metadata from that.
Paul
(*Baen eBooks also don't have proper ISBN numbers - they tend to only have the hardpack/papaerback ISBN numbers mentioned in the ebook text. Since Baen eBook are really only sold from the webscription website, I think they feel an iSBN number for the ebook version is overkill. Especially as for they 'should' use a different ISBN for each format - a way to eat up ISBN numbers pretty quickly. They're not free... Hmm... considering they've published around 600 ebooks, in six formats, that would cost about $7000 to assign them all ISBN numbers. )
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Originally Posted by FrancisT
I have got a shedload of (mostly Baen) ebooks in Mobi format (either .mobi or older .prc extension). When I import them into Calibre they tend to be author "unknown" and not have other metadata fields filled consistently.
Is this a calibre problem? And if so is it soemthing that someone is working on fixing?
If not. Is there a way that I can examine the files to see if they are missing the meta-data? And how easy would it be to create a plugin that contacts (say) the Baen website to get the correct metadata for a file?
Now that I've imported all my books though I'm now having trouble manually adding metadata via the GUI. There is I see a way to add/modify metadata via the CLI. If I do this will it break things when I correct the Title/author fields?
[Alternatively I could probably use perl and sqlite support and edit the metadata.db file directly. I'm guessing this would be an even worse idea]
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