my kindle doesn't show proper file name in case of pdfs

barteq · 03-06-2017, 03:24 PM

Hello everyone.

I noticed that names of pdf-books uploaded to my kindle are displayed as "title - author" and the author appears again in the author field. Mobi books are displayed properly. The same thing happens to the books sent to the amazon cloud.

Also all the ":" in the titles are changed into "_". I know you can't save a file with ":" in the filename but why can't it be in the title on kindle?

Can anyone be of assisstance? I would appreciate if someone could post some links to the similar threads or tutorials.

thanks in advance

kovidgoyal · 03-06-2017, 11:09 PM

Because the kindle doesn;t read metadata from inside PDF files, only from the filename. Why that is, you'd have to ask Amazon.

03-06-2017, 03:24 PM	#1
barteq Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2017 Device: Kindle Paperwhite III	my kindle doesn't show proper file name in case of pdfs Hello everyone. I noticed that names of pdf-books uploaded to my kindle are displayed as "title - author" and the author appears again in the author field. Mobi books are displayed properly. The same thing happens to the books sent to the amazon cloud. Also all the ":" in the titles are changed into "_". I know you can't save a file with ":" in the filename but why can't it be in the title on kindle? Can anyone be of assisstance? I would appreciate if someone could post some links to the similar threads or tutorials. thanks in advance

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03-06-2017, 11:09 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,646 Karma: 28549046 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Because the kindle doesn;t read metadata from inside PDF files, only from the filename. Why that is, you'd have to ask Amazon.

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