Renaming non English book title when exporting to device

ahmedabdo · 06-10-2019, 10:34 AM

Hi all,

I hope I'm not sounding stupid here, but I looked and couldn't find what I need.

When I export a book of non English title characters (Arabic in this case), Calibre would automatically transform them to English characters at the device (Boox Nova pro, BTW). In the save to disk feature settings I found a tick to disable this behaviour when, apparently, saving to disk, but I cannot find a similar settings for send to device feature.

Is there an option to change this for "send to device"? I have to manually drop the ebooks inside the device from the file manager of Windows so that the book name appears correctly (in Arabic characters).

Thank you.

kovidgoyal · 06-10-2019, 10:49 AM

No there isn't. Many devices have probems with non-ascii filenames. In any case when you send a book to the device, the books title and ther metadata are set inside the bok file. The device should be reading those, not the filename.

ahmedabdo · 06-10-2019, 11:06 AM

Oh... I do realize that the file name itself could be different from what is displayed. Probably I should've worded my post differently. Anyway, it is what the device shows as title that is being converted by Calibre.
I think it should have an option under "send to device" similar to "save to disk" settings, where we can opt to keep the original non-ascii character naming. Many devices, especially modern ones, can read those titles correctly, so there is no need to convert them.

kovidgoyal · 06-10-2019, 11:23 AM

titles are not converted, only filenames are.

DNSB · 06-10-2019, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ahmedabdo

I hope I'm not sounding stupid here, but I looked and couldn't find what I need.

“The only stupid question is the question that is never asked.”
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Quote:

Originally Posted by ahmedabdo

When I export a book of non English title characters (Arabic in this case), Calibre would automatically transform them to English characters at the device (Boox Nova pro, BTW). In the save to disk feature settings I found a tick to disable this behaviour when, apparently, saving to disk, but I cannot find a similar settings for send to device feature.

Is there an option to change this for "send to device"? I have to manually drop the ebooks inside the device from the file manager of Windows so that the book name appears correctly (in Arabic characters).

I don't own a Onyx Boox but I seem to remember that from a few years back, one of their firmware updates for the M92 added the option in list view to show filenames or book title from metadata. It sounds as if your ereader is using the filename which calibre will modify and not the metadata. Sorry I can't help with where that setting is located but hopefully, just knowing it exists may help.

Edit: I checked the Onxy Boox Poke Pro manual online and found this page (see attached image) where it looks as if the Show books' titles instead of their names in the library should do what you want.

ahmedabdo · 06-12-2019, 09:17 PM

Thank you very much David. That option fixed the problem on the Nova Pro.

06-10-2019, 10:34 AM	#1
ahmedabdo Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Onyx Boox M92, Nova Pro, Poke Pro	Renaming non English book title when exporting to device Hi all, I hope I'm not sounding stupid here, but I looked and couldn't find what I need. When I export a book of non English title characters (Arabic in this case), Calibre would automatically transform them to English characters at the device (Boox Nova pro, BTW). In the save to disk feature settings I found a tick to disable this behaviour when, apparently, saving to disk, but I cannot find a similar settings for send to device feature. Is there an option to change this for "send to device"? I have to manually drop the ebooks inside the device from the file manager of Windows so that the book name appears correctly (in Arabic characters). Thank you.

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06-10-2019, 10:49 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,349 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No there isn't. Many devices have probems with non-ascii filenames. In any case when you send a book to the device, the books title and ther metadata are set inside the bok file. The device should be reading those, not the filename.

06-10-2019, 11:06 AM	#3
ahmedabdo Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Onyx Boox M92, Nova Pro, Poke Pro	Oh... I do realize that the file name itself could be different from what is displayed. Probably I should've worded my post differently. Anyway, it is what the device shows as title that is being converted by Calibre. I think it should have an option under "send to device" similar to "save to disk" settings, where we can opt to keep the original non-ascii character naming. Many devices, especially modern ones, can read those titles correctly, so there is no need to convert them.

06-10-2019, 11:23 AM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,349 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	titles are not converted, only filenames are.

06-12-2019, 09:17 PM	#6
ahmedabdo Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Onyx Boox M92, Nova Pro, Poke Pro	Thank you very much David. That option fixed the problem on the Nova Pro.

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