Managing Titles

yihyng · 09-04-2009, 03:19 PM

Hi,
I just got my PRS-600. Its been fun so far, but I've been having trouble with the titles. I read a lot of scientific papers and when I download a bunch of them into the e-reader, all sorts of weird titles appear. Some of them show the doi code (which is like a permanent web link for a scientific paper) and others show the company name etc instead of the file name as the title. Is there anyway to force it use the file name as the title?

I tried calibre but I had to edit metatags manually to get it to work.

mgmueller · 09-04-2009, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by yihyng

Hi,
I just got my PRS-600. Its been fun so far, but I've been having trouble with the titles. I read a lot of scientific papers and when I download a bunch of them into the e-reader, all sorts of weird titles appear. Some of them show the doi code (which is like a permanent web link for a scientific paper) and others show the company name etc instead of the file name as the title. Is there anyway to force it use the file name as the title?

I tried calibre but I had to edit metatags manually to get it to work.

It always uses the metadata, not the filename.
There's a workaround though.
You can batch-process your files in calibre. If the metadata does exist, you can process hundreds of files that way. If it doesn't exist, unfortunately you have to add it manually.

yihyng · 09-04-2009, 07:10 PM

Is there some software that converts the metadata title to the filename?

mgmueller · 09-16-2009, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by yihyng

Is there some software that converts the metadata title to the filename?

It depends on the file format. There are some tools around, but each of them only covers a specific file format.
On Sony 600, you're probably using PDF or ePUB?
What's your source format?

09-04-2009, 03:19 PM	#1
yihyng Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Baltimore Device: PRS-600	Managing Titles Hi, I just got my PRS-600. Its been fun so far, but I've been having trouble with the titles. I read a lot of scientific papers and when I download a bunch of them into the e-reader, all sorts of weird titles appear. Some of them show the doi code (which is like a permanent web link for a scientific paper) and others show the company name etc instead of the file name as the title. Is there anyway to force it use the file name as the title? I tried calibre but I had to edit metatags manually to get it to work.

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yihyng Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Baltimore Device: PRS-600	Is there some software that converts the metadata title to the filename?

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