Calibre Download Metadata Not Working
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Click the book you want to edit and then click the Edit metadata button or press the E key. A dialog opens that allows you to edit all aspects of the metadata. It has various features to make editing faster and more efficient. A list of the commonly used tips:
The nicest feature of the edit metadata dialog is its ability to automatically fill in many metadata fields by getting metadata from various websites. Currently, calibre uses Google Books and Amazon. The metadata download can fill in Title, author, series, tags, rating, description and ISBN for you.
To use the download, fill in the title and author fields and click the Fetch metadata button. calibre will present you with a list of books that most closely match the title and author. If you fill in the ISBN field first, it will be used in preference to the title and author. If no matches are found, try making your search a little less specific by including only some key words in the title and only the author last name.
In calibre, a single book entry can have many different formats associated with it. For example you may have obtained the Complete Works of Shakespeare in EPUB format and later converted it to MOBI to read on your Kindle. calibre automatically manages multiple formats for you. In the Available formats section of the Edit metadata dialog, you can manage these formats. You can add a new format, delete an existing format and also ask calibre to set the metadata and cover for the book entry from the metadata in one of the formats.
You can ask calibre to download book covers for you, provided the book has a known ISBN. Alternatively you can specify a file on your computer to use as the cover. calibre can even generate a default cover with basic metadata on it for you. You can drag and drop images onto the cover to change it and also right click to copy/paste cover images.
First select the books you want to edit by holding Ctrl or Shift and clicking on them. If you select more than one book, clicking the Edit metadata button will cause the Bulk metadata edit dialog to open. Using this dialog, you can quickly set the author/publisher/rating/tags/series etc of a bunch of books to the same value. This is particularly useful if you have just imported a number of books that have some metadata in common. This dialog is very powerful, for example, it has a Search and replace tab that you can use to perform bulk operations on metadata and even copy metadata from one column to another.
The Edit metadata for many books dialog allows you to perform arbitrarily powerful search and replace operations on the selected books. By default it uses a simple text search and replace, but it also support regular expressions. For more on regular expressions, see All about using regular expressions in calibre.
You can have calibre change the case of the result (information after the replace has happened) by choosing one of the functions from the Apply function after replace box. The operations available are:
Search and replace is done after all the other metadata changes in the other tabs are applied. This can lead to some confusion, because the test boxes will show the information before the other changes, but the operation will be applied after the other changes. If you have any doubts about what is going to happen, do not mix search/replace with other changes.
calibre can store any number of extra data files associated to a book. Thesecan be alternate covers, supplementary material, etc. They cannot be vieweddirectly or used as conversion sources. Nor are they indexed by the Full textsearch engine in calibre. To view/add/delete them select the book and rightclick the Edit metadata button and choose Manage datafiles. This will pop-up a window where you can perform operations on thesefiles. Alternately, you can right click the Add books button andchoose Add data files to selected book records to more quickly adddata files.
PRC is a generic format, calibre supports PRC files with TextRead and MOBIBook headers.PDB is also a generic format. calibre supports eReader, Plucker (input only), PML and zTxt PDB files.DJVU support is only for converting DJVU files that contain embedded text. These are typically generated by OCR software.MOBI books can be of two types Mobi6 and KF8. calibre fully supports both. MOBI files often have .azw or .azw3 file extensions.DOCX files from Microsoft Word 2007 and newer are supported.
Then there is the metadata ToC. A metadata ToC is a ToC that is not part of the book text and is typically accessed by some special button on a reader. For example, in the calibre E-book viewer, you use the Show Table of Contents button to see this ToC. This ToC cannot be styled by the book creator. How it is represented is up to the viewer program.
In the MOBI format, the situation is a little confused. This is because the MOBI format, alone amongst mainstream e-book formats, does not have decent support for a metadata ToC. A MOBI book simulates the presence of a metadata ToC by putting an extra content ToC at the end of the book. When you click Goto Table of Contents on your Kindle, it is to this extra content ToC that the Kindle takes you.
If you have a hand edited ToC in the input document, you can use the ToC detection options in calibre to automatically generate the metadata ToC from it. See the conversion section of the User Manual for more details on how to use these options.
Finally, I encourage you to ditch the content ToC and only have a metadata ToC in your e-books. Metadata ToCs will give the people reading your e-books a much superior navigation experience (except on the Kindle, where they are essentially the same as a content ToC).
The newer AZW3 format has proper support for a metadata ToC. However, theKindle firmware tends to malfunction if you disable the generation of theend-of-file inline ToC. So it is recommended that you leave the generatedToC alone. If you create an AZW3 file with a metadata ToC and noend-of-file generated ToC, some features on the Kindle will not work, suchas the Page Flip feature.
calibre can directly connect to all the major (and most of the minor) e-bookreading devices, smartphones, tablets, etc. In addition, using theConnect to folder function you can use it with any e-book readerthat exports itself as a USB disk. Finally, you can connect wirelessly to anydevice that has a web browser using the calibre Content server.
Once you send us the output for a particular operating system, support for the device in that operating systemwill appear in the next release of calibre. To send us the output, open a bug report and attach the output to it.See how to report bugs.
If you are connecting an Apple iDevice (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone), Appleno longer allows third party software to connect to their devices using aUSB cable. Instead use a wireless connection, via the calibre Contentserver.
Make sure you are running the latest version of calibre (currently7.2.0). The latest version can always be downloaded from the calibrewebsite. You can tell whatversion of calibre you are currently running by looking at the bottomline of the main calibre window.
In addition to the Connect to folder function found under theConnect/share button, calibre provides a User defined deviceplugin that can be used to connect to any USB device that shows up as a diskdrive in your operating system. Note: on Windows, the device must have a driveletter for calibre to use it. See the device plugin Preferences -> Plugins ->Device plugins -> User defined and Preferences -> Miscellaneous -> Getinformation to setup the user defined device for more information. Note thatif you are using the user defined plugin for a device normally detected by abuiltin calibre plugin, you must disable the builtin plugin first, so that youruser defined plugin is used instead.
An easy way to browse your calibre collection from your Apple deviceis by using The calibre Content server, which makes your collection availableover the net. First perform the following steps in calibre
The Content server allows you to read books directly in Safari itself. Inaddition, there are many apps for your iDevice that can connect to the calibreContent server. Examples include: Marvin, Mapleread and iBooks itself.
Many reading apps support browsing the calibre library directly via its OPDS support.In such apps you can go to the online catalog screen and add the IP address ofthe calibre server to browse and download books from your calibre librarywithin the app.
Simply plug your device into the computer with a USB cable. calibre shouldautomatically detect the device and then you can transfer books to it byclicking the Send to device button. Note that on macOS and Linuxonly a single program can connect to an Android device at a time, so makesure the device is not opened in the OS File manager, or the Android File Transferutility, etc.
With the Kindle Fire 8 or newer there is an icon that shows up whenthe USB cable is plugged in, showing that the device is charging. Tap thatand switch the device to data transfer mode, and then start calibre, itshould then be detected.
calibre has a builtin web server, the The calibre Content server. It makes your calibrecollection available over the net. You can browse it on your device using asimple browser or a dedicated application. First perform the following steps in calibre:
Some devices, like the Kindle (1/2/DX), do not allow you to access port 8080 (the default port on which the contentserver runs). In that case, change the port in the calibre Preferences to 80. (On some operating systems,you may not be able to run the server on a port number less than 1024 because of security settings. Inthis case the simplest solution is to adjust your router to forward requests on port 80 to port 8080).
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