Rename books and change covers on Paperwhite

[mcjtom]

Hi,

How do I rename books and/or change books covers on Kindle Paperwhite, but without obliterating notes and bookmarks that several books there already have?

Cheers!

[eschwartz]

Simply resend the book to the same filename.

That assumes whatever your send-to-device filename template is (by default it uses the title and author), it is not affected by the rename you do. (Resending with a new cover auto-embedded into the AZW3 won't change anything whatsoever in regards to notes/highlights.)

[mcjtom]

Thanks,

But what do I do if I have a fairly well organized library on Paperwhite, but each of those books came from different sources (emailed, directly downloaded, downloaded via Calibre)?

Is there a way of renaming and adding covers to books on Kindle already?

Cheers!

[eschwartz]

Renaming and adding covers implies modifying the ebook file.

So I will repeat -- resend the book.
If that means you must first add it to calibre, and update the metadata, then just go ahead and do that.


If you really want to waste your time, you can do that on the device itself using the ebook-meta command-line utility shipped with calibre, to embed metadata directly into an ebook file.
But that would be really awkward and inefficient!

Or find some other utility which allows editing an ebook file in-place. But if so, you are in the wrong forum, this is the calibre forum...

[mcjtom]

Thanks again. I'm trying it, but I'm still confused as to the easiest procedure. Here is why:

Say that I only have a book on Kindle, not in Calibre library. I can't edit metadata/cover directly on Kindle (as far as I can tell). So I add this book to Calibre library, then change the cover/metadata. But by doing that, Calibre changes the file name.

Now, what's an efficient name of resending the book to Kindle so that it replaces the old file and thus preserves the notes and bookmarks?

I will need to do this for quite a few books to that already reside on Kindle, but have titles/authors/covers messed up or missing... Is there a way of automating it somehow?

Cheers and thanks again!

[eschwartz]

Use a filename save template, possibly with a custom column.

I have an "#origfile" custom column that I use for this purpose, containing the original Amazon-blessed filename.
My filename save template (for the KINDLE2 driver) is:

program:

ifempty(
    field('#origfile'),
    strcat(
        sublist(field('author_sort'), 0, 1, '&'),
        '/',
        field('title'),
        ' - ',
        sublist(field('authors'), 0, 1, '&')
    )
)

[nongkers]

Hi
this thread is as near as i can get to my question:can i have the book title in words rather than covers which i find difficult to read.paperwhite kindle and calibre

[theducks]

Originally Posted by nongkers

Hi
this thread is as near as i can get to my question:can i have the book title in words rather than covers which i find difficult to read.paperwhite kindle and calibre

Use the default, Generate cover tool (on the Metadata edit form. Also availble via a tick on the Bulk mode MDE form)
or use the Generate Cover Plugin to create a custom cover with as little extra.

Note: If you convert, polish or Modify EPUB (PI), the original cover goes 'bye-bye' for good

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

Note: If you convert, polish or Modify EPUB (PI), the original cover goes 'bye-bye' for good

Tip : copy the original cover.jpg (right click->Copy) and paste into an image editor, save it as a TIFF on desktop, and then drop the TIFF into Book Details. You'll have an "author - title.TIFF" file - i.e. a 'format' file. Doesn't work for PNG or GIF because they get converted to cover.JPG.

BR

[filipbg]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Use a filename save template, possibly with a custom column.

I have an "#origfile" custom column that I use for this purpose, containing the original Amazon-blessed filename.
My filename save template (for the KINDLE2 driver) is:

program:

ifempty(
    field('#origfile'),
    strcat(
        sublist(field('author_sort'), 0, 1, '&'),
        '/',
        field('title'),
        ' - ',
        sublist(field('authors'), 0, 1, '&')
    )
)

Can anyone provide some guidance here, If I don't understand this post and want to rename files on my Kndle?