Conversion Question re Length of book name

jnbeaumont · 03-10-2021, 11:48 PM

Have an epub called Santa Montefiore - [Deverill 02] - Daughters of Castle Deverill.epub

Want to convert it to a Kindle version (azw3) called DC03-The Last Secret of the Deverills-2017, with the name of Santa Montefiore as the author.

What I put into Calibre as the name is DC03-The Last Secret of the Deverills-2017 and convert it to azw3, but what I get is a book called DC03-The Last Secret of the Dev - Santa Montefiore.azw3.

The book name appears to be limited to 31 characters and anything beyond that is truncated.

Is there a setting within Calibre that I need to change to allow for longer book names?

Thanks in advance for any help,

JeffB

theducks · 03-11-2021, 03:28 AM

file names have length limits (calibre adjusts the names to keep them valid)
BUT
Kindles use internal metadata for their displays. The Metadata plugboard can be used to stuff non-kindle standard metadata into the field.
eg
{series_index}-{title} --> Title

jnbeaumont · 03-11-2021, 01:45 PM

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated

JeffB

03-10-2021, 11:48 PM	#1
jnbeaumont Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle DX	Conversion Question re Length of book name Have an epub called Santa Montefiore - [Deverill 02] - Daughters of Castle Deverill.epub Want to convert it to a Kindle version (azw3) called DC03-The Last Secret of the Deverills-2017, with the name of Santa Montefiore as the author. What I put into Calibre as the name is DC03-The Last Secret of the Deverills-2017 and convert it to azw3, but what I get is a book called DC03-The Last Secret of the Dev - Santa Montefiore.azw3. The book name appears to be limited to 31 characters and anything beyond that is truncated. Is there a setting within Calibre that I need to change to allow for longer book names? Thanks in advance for any help, JeffB

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03-11-2021, 03:28 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,795 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	file names have length limits (calibre adjusts the names to keep them valid) BUT Kindles use internal metadata for their displays. The Metadata plugboard can be used to stuff non-kindle standard metadata into the field. eg {series_index}-{title} --> Title

03-11-2021, 01:45 PM	#3
jnbeaumont Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle DX	Thanks for your help. Much appreciated JeffB

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