01-05-2012, 05:48 PM | #1 |
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Metadata and Calibre2Opds
hello everyone,
I apologize if this has already been covered a ton, but I didn't see it mentioned in the faq, and a quick search didn't show me what I wanted to know. I recently started using calibre now that I learned that Stanza works with the OPDS interface and that Calibre2Opds exists. However, I'm frustrated by how calibre seems to edit metadata. If I understand correctly, calibre only edits metadata in its sql lite db, and does not actually modify the ebook metadata. So when I go and run Calibre2Opds, the books that Stanza will download still have the old metadata. I've tried reconverting books, but this seems tedious, and sometimes makes the book a slightly worse format (or there was a bug in that particular version of calibre, I'm not sure). Is this really how calibre works? Is there a setting to force calibre to update the ebook and not just the DB? Is there another way to do this easily that I'm missing? Thanks for your help. |
01-05-2012, 06:03 PM | #2 |
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What format book are you trying to use? If it is ePub then you can use either of:
- the Calibre Manage ePub plugin - the configuration option in calibre2opds to get the metadata in Calibre's library copy of ePub files updated to match the metadata database. |
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01-05-2012, 09:24 PM | #3 | |
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I am using epub files, so your help is greatly appreciated. I had not seen the option in calibre2opds before. I believe the one you mean is under the menu "Tools" there is the option "Reprocess the metadata of all the ePub files". Am I to understand that when you run calibre2opds to generate my catalog, this will update the epub files so that the metadata matches the calibre db? I can't quite find the "Calibre Manage ePub plugin" that you mention. Can you tell me the explicit name of that plugin? Does it come default with calibre, or do I have to download it and install it from elsewhere? Thanks. |
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01-05-2012, 11:17 PM | #4 |
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The Calibre plugin in is the one covered here.
The Calibre2Opds option I am talking about is a checkbox on the main options tab that is labelled "reprocess the ePub metadata". |
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