Changing Titles Of Books?

[NVash]

I just converted some books and I noticed that they came out okay with proper titles. Once I put them on the Kindle the titles came up differently. Is there anyway to change them on the Kindle?

[kindlekitten]

you want to change the real titles? *confused*

[HarryT]

Do you mean that you changed the filenames, but that different titles showed up when you loaded the book onto the Kindle?

The title that the Kindle shows comes from the "metadata" inside the book. You can edit this with Calibre.

[FF2]

Jumping into this thread, I would certainly agree to changing filenames from Amazon's alphanumeric to something meaningful. Ah, so it is the metadata which determines how it displays once it gets to the kindle.

[wvcherrybomb]

Originally Posted by FF2

Jumping into this thread, I would certainly agree to changing filenames from Amazon's alphanumeric to something meaningful. Ah, so it is the metadata which determines how it displays once it gets to the kindle.

Ah, NOW I get it ....

I'll admit I was completely baffled why anyone would want to change book titles. I didn't realize he was talking about the alphanumeric file names. I always change those in Calibre.

[jlmwrite]

Originally Posted by NVash

I just converted some books and I noticed that they came out okay with proper titles. Once I put them on the Kindle the titles came up differently. Is there anyway to change them on the Kindle?

By "converted some books", I'm assuming you meant you used Calibre to convert books from another format into mobi format. If that's the case, then go back into Calibre, and use the "Edit metadata" button to check the actual title information that's embedded into the files.

File names and the embedded titles can be very different.

[NVash]

I think I meant the embedded name, Im not sure which is which. I edited the Metadata but didnt double check in the Convert menu, Ill have to try it again. Thanks for the help everyone, Ill try it and see how it works out.

I also have some ebooks I downloaded from manybooks.net that arent recognized properly. What I mean is that I have some Lupin books. People may be familiar with him, his name is spelled Arsène Lupin. The Kindle apparently doesnt recognize that sign above the 'e', and gives it a new sign entirely. I dont exactly want to go into Calibre and convert it, I downloaded it as a free Mobi file. Nothing to convert it too and last time I tried to convert a file to the same format it messed everything up. Im guessing that Ill just have to download another format and fix the title by converting it or leave it alone. Theres no way to just edit the title in the Kindle is there? Maybe I can try editing the file name when I drag and drop it to the Kindle via USB. That might work.

[HarryT]

Please listen to what we're telling you. The filename of the book is totally irrelevant. What the Kindle displays is the metadata that's inside the book.

[unboggling]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Do you mean that you changed the filenames, but that different titles showed up when you loaded the book onto the Kindle?

The title that the Kindle shows comes from the "metadata" inside the book. You can edit this with Calibre.

Then I assume Kindle also reads the author it displays from metadata? That would explain why I can't get it to display LN,FN despite whatever I do in calibre prefs-sendtodevice.

[HarryT]

Yes, the author also comes from the book's metadata.

If a book's author is LN, FN the Kindle will automatically display it as FN LN. There's nothing you can do about that.

[unboggling]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Yes, the author also comes from the book's metadata.

If a book's author is LN, FN the Kindle will automatically display it as FN LN. There's nothing you can do about that.

Thx for quick response. The main problem is that Kindle sorts by the FN rather than the LN under choice of sort ByAuthor.

Hmm, there's gotta be a way to get to sort LN

[unboggling]

And HarryT, I loved your ERB Omnibuses

[unboggling]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Yes, the author also comes from the book's metadata.

If a book's author is LN, FN the Kindle will automatically display it as FN LN. There's nothing you can do about that.

On problem of Kindle display sorting author by FN. I found a way to get around it, but it's clunky. I'd been using LN, FN in authors in calibre. To sort by LN in a kindle display this is what I did.

1. Deleted the comma in calibre authors, leaving one space between LN and FN.

2. Coverted mobi to mobi to update the metadata.

3. Sent the mobi to the device.

So now under sort by author, Kindle displays a sort on the LN, but the author name LN FN without a comma may be a bit confusing.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by unboggling

Thx for quick response. The main problem is that Kindle sorts by the FN rather than the LN under choice of sort ByAuthor.

Hmm, there's gotta be a way to get to sort LN

Strange - I don't have that problem. My authors display "FN LN" but they sort correctly by LN. I have my author metadata set as "LN, FN".

[unboggling]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Strange - I don't have that problem. My authors display "FN LN" but they sort correctly by LN. I have my author metadata set as "LN, FN".

So do mine sort correctly on my kindle now. I only switched to LN, FN scheme in authors field a couple days ago and was vaguely remembering the sort problem from earlier rather than seeing if I still had that problem after the switch. I wonder if switching to LN, FN fixed the sort problem the other day, or if my noob-ness made me originally diagnose a non-existing problem?

Oh well, now no problem.