Old dog needs new trick: Updating metadata -

DrChiper · 06-15-2015, 05:21 AM

For a missing book in one of my series, I created a dummy entry. Now I did manage to find and include that missing book at last.

However, the metadata still shows the calibre generated cover, not the cover of the freshly added book. The refreshing metadata feature works from the existing metadata towards the book. But is there also a feature to update the metadata (in particular the cover file) from the book towards the calibre metadata?

At the moment I manually extract the cover in the calibre directory (which is certainly not the intended way), but surely, there is a better manner which I missed.

Any pointers?

mbovenka · 06-15-2015, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by DrChiper

But is there also a feature to update the metadata (in particular the cover file) from the book towards the calibre metadata?

Edit metadata -> 'i' icon and scroll icon will read metadata and cover respectively from the selected ebook file. Bulk edit will let you read covers from the ebook files ('read from file' or somesuch)

DrChiper · 06-15-2015, 07:31 AM

Thanks, I just knew that it could be done somehow, although clearly not in an obvious manner.

06-15-2015, 05:21 AM	#1
DrChiper Bookish Posts: 1,017 Karma: 2003162 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: PC, t1, t2, t3, Clara BW, Clara HD, Libra 2, Libra Color, Nxtpaper 11	Old dog needs new trick: Updating metadata - from book For a missing book in one of my series, I created a dummy entry. Now I did manage to find and include that missing book at last. However, the metadata still shows the calibre generated cover, not the cover of the freshly added book. The refreshing metadata feature works from the existing metadata towards the book. But is there also a feature to update the metadata (in particular the cover file) from the book towards the calibre metadata? At the moment I manually extract the cover in the calibre directory (which is certainly not the intended way), but surely, there is a better manner which I missed. Any pointers? Last edited by DrChiper; 06-15-2015 at 05:29 AM.

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06-15-2015, 07:31 AM	#3
DrChiper Bookish Posts: 1,017 Karma: 2003162 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: PC, t1, t2, t3, Clara BW, Clara HD, Libra 2, Libra Color, Nxtpaper 11	Thanks, I just knew that it could be done somehow, although clearly not in an obvious manner.

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