08-15-2010, 05:17 AM | #1 |
Junior Member
Posts: 2
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: HTC/Android
|
Save metadata in eBook
Hello.
I really like calibre, but I have a little problem, perhaps because I'm a newbie with ebooks, calibre and all this staff. I read FAQ, saw a few videotutorials but not answer for me. My point is that I change tags of my ebooks with calibre, but when I send it to my device, the metadata (author, title...) are the same. I suppose that metadata I changed with calibre were saved in a local data base and not in the epub file. Can I save this tags in my ebooks so I can mantain a only real version of the book? Thx. |
08-15-2010, 06:13 AM | #2 | |
US Navy, Retired
Posts: 9,865
Karma: 13806776
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: North Carolina
Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Nexus 7
|
Quote:
BUT If you sent the file to your device using the Send to device (or save to disk or connect to folder) feature then that metadata should be written to the epub as it is transferred to your device. On the other hand if you just drilled down in the file structure, found the book, and dragged it to your device then you have no chance of having the metadata transferred to the book because you circumvented the way calibre is designed. |
|
Advert | |
|
08-15-2010, 08:44 AM | #3 |
Junior Member
Posts: 2
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: HTC/Android
|
Yes, you were right. I was copying ebooks to my HTC manually. I did what you said, using send to device tool and all metadata copied too.
Thank you very much dude |
08-15-2010, 02:17 PM | #4 |
Junior Member
Posts: 9
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: Kindle Keyboard
|
Thanks for the Info. Had the same problem.
But it would be nice, if you could tell calibre to embed the metadata into the epub file. I'm using calibre2opds and upload the whole calibre database (including the catalog) to my webspace. But that way, the metadata in the epub files isn't correct. Hope you can understand, what I mean. |
08-15-2010, 02:30 PM | #5 | |
Wizard
Posts: 4,004
Karma: 177841
Join Date: Dec 2009
Device: WinMo: IPAQ; Android: HTC HD2, Archos 7o; Java:Gravity T
|
Quote:
Last edited by Starson17; 08-15-2010 at 02:32 PM. |
|
Advert | |
|
08-15-2010, 02:42 PM | #6 |
Junior Member
Posts: 9
Karma: 10
Join Date: Aug 2010
Device: Kindle Keyboard
|
Wow, thanks for the quick answer. Works like a charm
|
Tags |
calibre, epub, metadata, tags |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Convert to same format vs. Send/Save w/t metadata update | Starson17 | Calibre | 4 | 09-10-2010 01:32 PM |
PDF metadata CreationDate and Save to disk | paulzag | Calibre | 5 | 08-09-2010 04:22 AM |
Using Custom Metadata in Save Template | EJvdH | Calibre | 1 | 07-02-2010 06:06 AM |
Save template for title metadata? | Bob Butler | Calibre | 10 | 03-15-2010 01:05 PM |
Save Bookmarks from Reader to eBook Library | woops | Sony Reader | 1 | 04-24-2009 04:16 PM |