Change title stored in epub?

crochetgeek2010 · 03-03-2012, 04:10 AM

Hi All,
Got a new toy cybook odssey. Love the device but one difference is I have used mobi for years with my opus. I have found one annoying thing on epubs I purchase. I change titles in calibre but the epub title does not change in the actual file so the title looks weird on my toy, any way to get calibre to do this? FYI I am talking with an actual epub file to start with.

Thanks

Laura

dwig · 03-03-2012, 08:59 AM

Calibre maintains its own database of detail on a book, adding entries as the books are imported. Changing any of the metadata (title, author, tags, ... , and even the cover) in calibre does not make the change to the actual ebook files, only calibre's database.

When you export an ebook though one of the proper methods (Send-to-Device and Save-to-Disk) some of this data gets updated in the ebooks. When you convert ebooks all of the calibre changes get updated in the newly converted book, but not the source book.

There is also and Modify EPUB plug-in that you can add to calibre that provides a method to easily write the calibre changes back into the original ebook.

03-03-2012, 04:10 AM	#1
crochetgeek2010 Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 13110 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Kobo Aura HD	Change title stored in epub? Hi All, Got a new toy cybook odssey. Love the device but one difference is I have used mobi for years with my opus. I have found one annoying thing on epubs I purchase. I change titles in calibre but the epub title does not change in the actual file so the title looks weird on my toy, any way to get calibre to do this? FYI I am talking with an actual epub file to start with. Thanks Laura

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03-03-2012, 08:59 AM	#2
dwig Wizard Posts: 1,613 Karma: 6718541 Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Paradise (Key West, FL) Device: Current:Surface Go & Kindle 3 - Retired: DellV8p, Clie UX50, ...	Calibre maintains its own database of detail on a book, adding entries as the books are imported. Changing any of the metadata (title, author, tags, ... , and even the cover) in calibre does not make the change to the actual ebook files, only calibre's database. When you export an ebook though one of the proper methods (Send-to-Device and Save-to-Disk) some of this data gets updated in the ebooks. When you convert ebooks all of the calibre changes get updated in the newly converted book, but not the source book. There is also and Modify EPUB plug-in that you can add to calibre that provides a method to easily write the calibre changes back into the original ebook.

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