![]() On a related front, I purchased a few EPUB books which were set up by commercial publishers at least (vs Google or crowd-sourced). I have downloaded 3 books by Somerville & Ross (there are many more) and no two of them display the same authors so they don't sort together. So there are multiple problems, not all of which are ADE's fault, but ADE should at least display (and make searchable/ssortable) all Authors, and should provide a way to modify the fields they display. (Edith Oenone)"Īpparently, ADE pulls only one item from the Author field, and the creator of the EPUB book filled it in alphabetical order by last name, rather than in the proper order, bibliographically speaking. The authors are Somerville & Ross or, more explicitly, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross.Ģ) When imported into ADE, the Author field displays: "Martin Ross".ģ) When examined under Sigil, the Author field displays: "Ross, Martin Somerville, E. M." from Project Gutenberg as an EPUB file (free). Let me show you some of the problems.Ī) Inadequate author field information and displayġ) I downloaded "Some Experiences of an Irish R. ![]() One recommended tool I have located is Sigil. I understand that ADE is an early version, but I'd like to see it improve drastically in this area or someone will come along and do it better - the metadata requirements issues are too important and probably too easy to do. For bibliophiles, it's like for photographers - we're talking about tens of thousands of books, ultimately, and we need reliable/modifiable metadata accordingly. This post summarizes the problem nicely:, even though it's Apple-specific. And, of course, you need more than Acrobat Reader to do that.įor EPUB files, I'd rather do this from within ADE, but will certainly use external tools if available even though that introduces another step. This does not work on documents that are password-protected for writing (e.g., downloads from PoemHunter). (Is there a correspondance table anywhere?). Does anyone know of a more general-purpose tool that can modify PDF or EPUB info?įor a PDF generally, you can modify much of the metadata (using Adobe Acrobat directly with ctrl-D), though I can't identify what field maps to the ADE "Publisher" field. ![]() I'm just using a regular eReader (Sony, in this case) via ADE. See the Help=>About menu in Sigil for a complete list of contributors.Thanks, that's an interesting suggestion but seems to be iPhone-specific. ![]() Support is also provided by other volunteers who contribute code, translations and helpful answers to user’s questions. Sigil was originally created by Strahinja Markovic in 2009 and remains completely free to download and use. Previous developers/authors include John Schember, Grant Drake and Dave Heiland. The current Sigil development team includes Doug Massay and Kevin Hendricks as co-lead developers and maintainers. This open-source and completely free software is written and supported entirely by volunteers. You can use Sigil to format and package your books into an EPUB that looks exactly the way you want it to using an advanced set of features that have made Sigil one of most popular EPUB editors available. If you are formatting books for your own use, or you are a professional editor publishing books on multiple platforms, then Sigil is for you. Sigil was designed to make it easy to create great ebooks using the EPUB format.
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