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Old 12-13-2010, 03:35 PM   #1
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First time user unexpected behaviour

I just installed Calibre for the first time, in the hope that it will be more useful than Mobipocket which is frankly just a toy. This is literally the first time I have opened Calibre.

I clicked "Add books" and then selected an HTML file. Then I clicked "Open". The result in Calibre was a row in the main window:--

- The Title field was set to a name I did not specify, but somehow it had dreamed up a name that was not altogether random
- The Author(s) field was set to the file name, but without the .html qualifier.

When I selected more than one file at a time, it told me I had duplicates, which is not true. But when I chose to "ignore" there were two files with the same "random" title. What I actually wanted was to put more than one html file into the same ebook.

Is this the expected default behaviour?

I realize I can go in and "edit metadata" and correct this, but I just wondered if I had missed something.
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Old 12-13-2010, 04:44 PM   #2
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Metadata is usually read from file content, you can, if you want, set it to be read from the filename. File content metadata may, depending on your source, be pretty good or not usable at all. Check the preferences to select what method you want to use. Oh, and the "row in the main window" is the book entry in the library
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Old 12-14-2010, 07:33 AM   #3
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What I actually wanted was to put more than one html file into the same ebook.
Check out the User Manual FAQs - "How do I convert a collection of HTML files in a specific order?"

http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual...specific-order
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