Metadata and Calibre2Opds

[evanbernstein]

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.

[itimpi]

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.

[evanbernstein]

Originally Posted by itimpi

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.

Thanks for the reply!

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.

[itimpi]

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".

[evanbernstein]

Originally Posted by itimpi

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".

Thanks, these did exactly what I wanted!