Metadata from Calibre not showing up on books in Nook ST

jasmith74 · 12-26-2011, 08:49 PM

I just got a Nook Simple Touch for Christmas and I have only had Calibre for a couple weeks now so I am very new to this. I have edited the metadata in books that are part of a series and edited tags. When I add the books into my Nook Simple touch the metadata for each book is not showing up. I have tried and re-tried with no luck. I noticed on my Nook in "my files" the driveinfo.calibre and the metadata.calibre cannot be read by the Nook. Could this be the problem? And how do I fix this?

theducks · 12-26-2011, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jasmith74

I just got a Nook Simple Touch for Christmas and I have only had Calibre for a couple weeks now so I am very new to this. I have edited the metadata in books that are part of a series and edited tags. When I add the books into my Nook Simple touch the metadata for each book is not showing up. I have tried and re-tried with no luck. I noticed on my Nook in "my files" the driveinfo.calibre and the metadata.calibre cannot be read by the Nook. Could this be the problem? And how do I fix this?

those 2 file are made by and for Calibre use only.

It is important the the book and templates resolve to unique names or the device may consider them duplicates.

kovidgoyal · 12-26-2011, 10:26 PM

Nooks dont have support for series and tags metadata. You can root your Nook I believe the alternate firmware does.

jasmith74 · 12-27-2011, 08:08 AM

I have read that other people that have a Nook Touch can add the series info to the title through the metadata plugboards and have the info transferred to the Nook. Does it not work that way then? So I should just use the Shelves option in Nook....I was really hoping for Calibre to be the one place to store ALL my books and be able to know what book in a series comes next with out having to go to my computer to look it up

kovidgoyal · 12-27-2011, 08:11 AM

You can certainly use a plugboard to put the series into the title. But that makes it a part of the title, not a separate piece of metadata.

jasmith74 · 12-27-2011, 08:58 AM

I have done that and it is still not showing up in the title...do I have to add the series information to the actual title itself in the "edit metadata" area? That may be why it is not showing up.....

jasmith74 · 12-27-2011, 04:49 PM

I have edited the metadata and added the series number to the actual title...then sent that to the device...went in to the Nook files on my computer and deleted the old files of the books with out the series # in the title and all seems fine now

Thank you for all the help

It is appreciated!

12-26-2011, 08:49 PM	#1
jasmith74 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Nook Simple Touch	Metadata from Calibre not showing up on books in Nook ST I just got a Nook Simple Touch for Christmas and I have only had Calibre for a couple weeks now so I am very new to this. I have edited the metadata in books that are part of a series and edited tags. When I add the books into my Nook Simple touch the metadata for each book is not showing up. I have tried and re-tried with no luck. I noticed on my Nook in "my files" the driveinfo.calibre and the metadata.calibre cannot be read by the Nook. Could this be the problem? And how do I fix this?

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12-26-2011, 10:26 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,156 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Nooks dont have support for series and tags metadata. You can root your Nook I believe the alternate firmware does.

12-27-2011, 08:08 AM	#4
jasmith74 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Nook Simple Touch	I have read that other people that have a Nook Touch can add the series info to the title through the metadata plugboards and have the info transferred to the Nook. Does it not work that way then? So I should just use the Shelves option in Nook....I was really hoping for Calibre to be the one place to store ALL my books and be able to know what book in a series comes next with out having to go to my computer to look it up

12-27-2011, 08:11 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,156 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You can certainly use a plugboard to put the series into the title. But that makes it a part of the title, not a separate piece of metadata.

12-27-2011, 08:58 AM	#6
jasmith74 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Nook Simple Touch	I have done that and it is still not showing up in the title...do I have to add the series information to the actual title itself in the "edit metadata" area? That may be why it is not showing up.....

12-27-2011, 04:49 PM	#7
jasmith74 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Nook Simple Touch	I have edited the metadata and added the series number to the actual title...then sent that to the device...went in to the Nook files on my computer and deleted the old files of the books with out the series # in the title and all seems fine now Thank you for all the help It is appreciated!

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