Metadata problems from manybooks.net

morpheus · 02-06-2008, 01:26 AM

I've seen this problem a couple of times. Am I missing something obvious?

1. Download something from Many Books in .lrf format e.g Ambrose Bierce's excellent short story collection "Can Such Things Be?"

http://manybooks.net/titles/bierceametext03canbe10.html

2. Import the .lrf into the Sony Reader for my PRS 500, and it shows up with a mangled title - just the filename "Can_Such_Things_Be" and no author info.

3. When I check the metadata with editlrfmeta it looks fine!

C:\editlrfmeta Can_Such_Things_Be.lrf

title: Can Such Things Be?
author: Ambrose Bierce
bookid: wdt7JceAGRHQuy6B
publisher: manybooks.net
description: This book was generated by a preliminary version of makelrf.
date: 11.02.2007

What am I doing wrong?

Morph

fireproof · 02-06-2008, 07:36 AM

Maybe it's the question mark in the title... that would be my first guess.

kovidgoyal · 02-06-2008, 01:22 PM

manybooks.net uses an ancient LRF converter to generate LRF books. Thaqt converter sometimes produces invalid metadata blocks. Try changing the metadata with lrf-meta first, to fix it.

morpheus · 03-04-2008, 10:04 PM

I had the same problem with text files downloaded from Gutenberg. They have no metadata of course so they have no authors and filenames for the titles.

Why doesn't the Sony Reader software allow me to edit the metadata right there on my PC? Wouldn't that be the most effective method?

Morph

DrMoze · 03-08-2008, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by morpheus

I had the same problem with text files downloaded from Gutenberg. They have no metadata of course so they have no authors and filenames for the titles.

Why doesn't the Sony Reader software allow me to edit the metadata right there on my PC? Wouldn't that be the most effective method?

Because the Sony sw isn't designed to allow editing of metadata.

Patricia · 03-08-2008, 11:25 PM

With the PG text files, can't you just download them, then right-click on the icon, choose 'properties' the 'summary' and insert author and title?
Then load the file into the Reader.

02-06-2008, 01:26 AM	#1
morpheus Aio, quantitas magna frum Posts: 29 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lemuria Device: Sony 505	Metadata problems from manybooks.net I've seen this problem a couple of times. Am I missing something obvious? 1. Download something from Many Books in .lrf format e.g Ambrose Bierce's excellent short story collection "Can Such Things Be?" http://manybooks.net/titles/bierceametext03canbe10.html 2. Import the .lrf into the Sony Reader for my PRS 500, and it shows up with a mangled title - just the filename "Can_Such_Things_Be" and no author info. 3. When I check the metadata with editlrfmeta it looks fine! C:\editlrfmeta Can_Such_Things_Be.lrf title: Can Such Things Be? author: Ambrose Bierce bookid: wdt7JceAGRHQuy6B publisher: manybooks.net description: This book was generated by a preliminary version of makelrf. date: 11.02.2007 What am I doing wrong? Morph

02-06-2008, 07:36 AM	#2
fireproof Enthusiast Posts: 45 Karma: 16 Join Date: Mar 2004 Device: Palm Tungsten\|TX, Sony Reader^H^H^H^H, iLiad, iPhone	punctuation? Maybe it's the question mark in the title... that would be my first guess.

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	manybooks.net uses an ancient LRF converter to generate LRF books. Thaqt converter sometimes produces invalid metadata blocks. Try changing the metadata with lrf-meta first, to fix it.

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morpheus Aio, quantitas magna frum Posts: 29 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lemuria Device: Sony 505	I had the same problem with text files downloaded from Gutenberg. They have no metadata of course so they have no authors and filenames for the titles. Why doesn't the Sony Reader software allow me to edit the metadata right there on my PC? Wouldn't that be the most effective method? Morph

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Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	With the PG text files, can't you just download them, then right-click on the icon, choose 'properties' the 'summary' and insert author and title? Then load the file into the Reader.

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