Meta data problems

melhall · 03-29-2008, 09:11 AM

Hi guys, am really new to this and need a hand...
i have a job lot (603)of books in (now) .doc, .rtf & pfd formats and when i improt them to the device the athour info disappears...
now as i went through and labelled them all by hand i'm a bit dischuffed...
what am i doing wrong and how can i do it right?

NatCh · 03-31-2008, 11:58 PM

The thing you may be running into is that the Reader looks for meta-data in RTF & Word files in a specific place, and if it's not properly encoded in the file it just defaults to using the file name.

Since you have a fairly large set of files, you might want to look at libprs500, it's got some nice tools to manage metadata for you.

It might even entice you to try converting your files to LRF format. The Reader handles that format a good deal more agilely, and the files are something like half the size.

03-29-2008, 09:11 AM	#1
melhall Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: PRS505	Meta data problems Hi guys, am really new to this and need a hand... i have a job lot (603)of books in (now) .doc, .rtf & pfd formats and when i improt them to the device the athour info disappears... now as i went through and labelled them all by hand i'm a bit dischuffed... what am i doing wrong and how can i do it right?

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03-31-2008, 11:58 PM	#2
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	The thing you may be running into is that the Reader looks for meta-data in RTF & Word files in a specific place, and if it's not properly encoded in the file it just defaults to using the file name. Since you have a fairly large set of files, you might want to look at libprs500, it's got some nice tools to manage metadata for you. It might even entice you to try converting your files to LRF format. The Reader handles that format a good deal more agilely, and the files are something like half the size.

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