Book description needed - Page 2

jackie_w · 03-15-2011, 11:18 AM

Calibre needs to be able to edit the book to insert the synopsis jacket, so I'm afraid that wouldn't be possible with a DRM'd book.

theducks · 03-15-2011, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by wayhop

I'm not sure if this thread still has any watchers, but I'd appreciate a little help if it does. I'm a new Kindle person and my biggest frustration is having 100 books and no idea what they are when I am out of WiFi range. This thread was a great help in that I was able to download the metadata descriptions for all of them and create a catalog. I was not able to get the description onto the front page of the book, though. I think I may be stuck at the "conversion and structure detection" stage. I have found both of those, but when I use the default file types and hit convert, they all come back telling me they are DRM protected. I know what that is and I don't want to remove it. Is there a way to get that front page description anyway? Thanks in advance wayhop

Use the Catalog feature (little arrow next to Library Icon) to create a Catalog that you send to your device. Since this does not actually use the (DRM infested) books, it works for any book.
Not quite as convenient, but it works.

Manichean · 03-15-2011, 11:59 AM

If you don't want to remove DRM, there's no way you can convert the files using Calibre, so no way of getting the metadata frontpage, either.

lilywhite · 03-15-2011, 03:50 PM

I had no idea calibre could do this, and since I kept my entire unread catalog on my K, this was getting pretty annoying. Thank you guys SO MUCH!

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03-15-2011, 11:18 AM	#16
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	Calibre needs to be able to edit the book to insert the synopsis jacket, so I'm afraid that wouldn't be possible with a DRM'd book.

03-15-2011, 11:59 AM	#18
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	If you don't want to remove DRM, there's no way you can convert the files using Calibre, so no way of getting the metadata frontpage, either.

03-15-2011, 03:50 PM	#19
lilywhite Member Posts: 10 Karma: 178 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kindle	I had no idea calibre could do this, and since I kept my entire unread catalog on my K, this was getting pretty annoying. Thank you guys SO MUCH!

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