Corrupt Author/Book Titles on PRS-600

Rendus · 03-29-2010, 02:56 PM

As can be seen in the attached images, books transferred by Calibre to my PRS-600 Sony Reader Touch Edition receive odd characters, largely Chinese, replacing the last couple letters of a book title or author name. This occurs on both the internal storage, and on the 8GB MicroSD card I'm using (with a MicroSD to SD converter).

Why would this happen, and what can I do to stop it?

hansvanderveeke · 03-29-2010, 04:10 PM

I do not have a solution for you but I would like to add that I have the same problem with my PRS-600.

It is only in the title and author. Never in the text of the books themselves.

Katti's Cat · 03-29-2010, 07:19 PM

Happened to me once - after I strayed and gave in to the dark side of eBooks

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kovidgoyal · 03-29-2010, 11:38 PM

it's a known problem with setting metadata in certain types of PDF files. There's an open ticket about it in the calibre bug tracker.

03-29-2010, 02:56 PM	#1
Rendus Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Sony Reader Touch Edition	Corrupt Author/Book Titles on PRS-600 As can be seen in the attached images, books transferred by Calibre to my PRS-600 Sony Reader Touch Edition receive odd characters, largely Chinese, replacing the last couple letters of a book title or author name. This occurs on both the internal storage, and on the 8GB MicroSD card I'm using (with a MicroSD to SD converter). Why would this happen, and what can I do to stop it? Attached Thumbnails

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03-29-2010, 04:10 PM	#2
hansvanderveeke Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: sony prs-600	I do not have a solution for you but I would like to add that I have the same problem with my PRS-600. It is only in the title and author. Never in the text of the books themselves.

03-29-2010, 07:19 PM	#3
Katti's Cat Wizard Posts: 2,259 Karma: 175640 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Brisbane Australia Device: Sony PRS-600	Happened to me once - after I strayed and gave in to the dark side of eBooks .

03-29-2010, 11:38 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,170 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	it's a known problem with setting metadata in certain types of PDF files. There's an open ticket about it in the calibre bug tracker.

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