Amazon partially fixed bug that did not read metadata

darrenma · 10-14-2022, 04:46 PM

the author is not unknown anymore while sending through email. it reads the metadata for the author, but uses the file name instead of title as the title, then in my kindle the title is "title - author". as calibre sending ascii-ized filenames. Non-English speakers are just out of luck

hleo12 · 10-14-2022, 05:32 PM

Thank you for notifying.

This just made everything easier again.

Have you done some tests? Like without any plug-boards?

update:

Just when things are starting to look good.
Seems like Calibre only puts the book title - author on the subject line so Amazon puts that as the title. I need to have the series info on the title since documents (and Amazon in general) doesn't play well with series groupings.

Back to using the send to kindle app for me.

A Lurker · 10-21-2022, 09:11 PM

Ah, I just posted about this in another thread. This should be as easy workaround (change the file name to the title), but I have lots of book titles with colons (because they have subtitles). No way to add a colon to file name. I tried using the Send to Kindle PC app. That does allow me to assign a title other than the file name, including using a colon, but it keeps converting the colons to underscores.

hleo12 · 10-22-2022, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Lurker

Ah, I just posted about this in another thread. This should be as easy workaround (change the file name to the title), but I have lots of book titles with colons (because they have subtitles). No way to add a colon to file name. I tried using the Send to Kindle PC app. That does allow me to assign a title other than the file name, including using a colon, but it keeps converting the colons to underscores.

That probably won't work if you're using Calibre's built-in send-to-email system. Amazon seems to be just reading the email's subject line for the book's title.

Rellwood · 10-27-2022, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Lurker

Ah, I just posted about this in another thread. This should be as easy workaround (change the file name to the title), but I have lots of book titles with colons (because they have subtitles). No way to add a colon to file name. I tried using the Send to Kindle PC app. That does allow me to assign a title other than the file name, including using a colon, but it keeps converting the colons to underscores.

So THAT'S why I am having all kinds of trouble with my uploads...

I was wondering why I kept getting underscores and that Amazon wasn't reading the metadata and just going by the written title.

I came here to figure out what was going on...

Rellwood · 10-27-2022, 03:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Lurker

Ah, I just posted about this in another thread. This should be as easy workaround (change the file name to the title), but I have lots of book titles with colons (because they have subtitles). No way to add a colon to file name. I tried using the Send to Kindle PC app. That does allow me to assign a title other than the file name, including using a colon, but it keeps converting the colons to underscores.

I have resorted to semi colons

10-14-2022, 04:46 PM	#1
darrenma Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2021 Device: kindle	Amazon partially fixed bug that did not read metadata the author is not unknown anymore while sending through email. it reads the metadata for the author, but uses the file name instead of title as the title, then in my kindle the title is "title - author". as calibre sending ascii-ized filenames. Non-English speakers are just out of luck Last edited by darrenma; 10-14-2022 at 04:49 PM.

10-14-2022, 05:32 PM	#2
hleo12 Guru Posts: 655 Karma: 5078890 Join Date: Feb 2014 Device: Kobo Glo (deceased), Kindle 4th, Kindle Basic 10th Generation	Thank you for notifying. This just made everything easier again. Have you done some tests? Like without any plug-boards? update: Just when things are starting to look good. Seems like Calibre only puts the book title - author on the subject line so Amazon puts that as the title. I need to have the series info on the title since documents (and Amazon in general) doesn't play well with series groupings. Back to using the send to kindle app for me. Last edited by hleo12; 10-15-2022 at 06:34 PM.

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10-21-2022, 09:11 PM	#3
A Lurker Connoisseur Posts: 98 Karma: 335288 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: Kindle	Ah, I just posted about this in another thread. This should be as easy workaround (change the file name to the title), but I have lots of book titles with colons (because they have subtitles). No way to add a colon to file name. I tried using the Send to Kindle PC app. That does allow me to assign a title other than the file name, including using a colon, but it keeps converting the colons to underscores.

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