Comments Not Showing Up When Sent To Device

vinografia · 07-15-2016, 03:43 PM

I'm using the updated version of Calibre on my desktop, and am sending the epub version of my books to my Galaxy S7 Edge. I use Bookari (used to be Mantano) to organize and read my books on my Edge.

No matter how I send the epub to my device (Save to Disk, Send to Device, Tethered by USB & Managed by Calibre) the comments section in most of the books meta data is showing up empty.

Using Calibre's 'Edit Metadata Individually' I've tried comparing the metadata between a book where the comments to show up and a book whose comments don't show up and except for the descriptive text being different, they appear to be the same.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

theducks · 07-15-2016, 04:02 PM

Calibre Comments get inserted into the INTERNAL OPF when you use Calibre Send/Save To functions.

Your reader may not refresh its DB.
You might ask at the Readers support site

vinografia · 07-15-2016, 04:20 PM

I should have mentioned this above, but I have also tried deleted all the books and the folder from the device, uninstalling and reinstalling the Bookari software and setting up a brand new folder for Calibre to send the books to -- and I'm still having the same problem

jackie_w · 07-15-2016, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vinografia

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Apparently it's because calibre always stores Comments as HTML and Bookari only supports (wrongly) plain text in the internal OPF <dc:description> field.

There is another recent thread about this but I can't remember which subforum it was in. Someone (I think it was Terisa de morgan) has created a utility to assist in converting the HTML Comments to plain text.

I also use Bookari to read books but I totally ignore it's library facilities because the Calibre Companion Android app is superior in every way for these purposes. Needless to say, Calibre Companion does not have the above problem with Comments.

vinografia · 07-15-2016, 06:54 PM

Thank you so much for your help! I was able to track down the plugin and it worked like a charm!!!!

tomemastermom · 09-11-2016, 07:04 PM

I cannot find the plug in but am having same problem....please help

jackie_w · 09-11-2016, 07:13 PM

This is the plugin. Whether it's a solution to your particular problem I'm not sure.

07-15-2016, 03:43 PM	#1
vinografia Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2016 Device: Bookari on Galaxy S7 Edge	Comments Not Showing Up When Sent To Device I'm using the updated version of Calibre on my desktop, and am sending the epub version of my books to my Galaxy S7 Edge. I use Bookari (used to be Mantano) to organize and read my books on my Edge. No matter how I send the epub to my device (Save to Disk, Send to Device, Tethered by USB & Managed by Calibre) the comments section in most of the books meta data is showing up empty. Using Calibre's 'Edit Metadata Individually' I've tried comparing the metadata between a book where the comments to show up and a book whose comments don't show up and except for the descriptive text being different, they appear to be the same. Does anyone know why this is happening?

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07-15-2016, 04:02 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,020 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Calibre Comments get inserted into the INTERNAL OPF when you use Calibre Send/Save To functions. Your reader may not refresh its DB. You might ask at the Readers support site

07-15-2016, 04:20 PM	#3
vinografia Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2016 Device: Bookari on Galaxy S7 Edge	I should have mentioned this above, but I have also tried deleted all the books and the folder from the device, uninstalling and reinstalling the Bookari software and setting up a brand new folder for Calibre to send the books to -- and I'm still having the same problem

07-15-2016, 06:54 PM	#5
vinografia Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2016 Device: Bookari on Galaxy S7 Edge	Thank you so much for your help! I was able to track down the plugin and it worked like a charm!!!!

09-11-2016, 07:04 PM	#6
tomemastermom Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Samsung Galaxy2	I cannot find the plug in but am having same problem....please help

09-11-2016, 07:13 PM	#7
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,251 Karma: 16539642 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	This is the plugin. Whether it's a solution to your particular problem I'm not sure.

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