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Old 01-19-2012, 04:19 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
The metadata editor in calibre is not actually changing the books. It is maintaining the libraries database. To do this, do a conversion using epub as both the input and output. There is also the "Modify ePub" plugin that has an option to do this.
That's not entirely correct. As you say, the metadata editor is changing the data only in Calibre's database, but the changed metadata WILL get written back to the book when you do either a "Send to Device", or a "Save to Disk". There's no need to do a conversion.
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