ebook help! also Idol RPF: Carcharodon Interruptus, Personal Appearance, and uh, that other one

[astolat]

Google-fu is failing me on this matter :'( so I come paging my flist! It looks like we have the basic ebook functionality working pretty well, and the big question is -- dun dun dun -- how to include metadata, like fandom, character, relationships, tags, etc

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[bookshop]

i'm trying not to leave a comment on this post that is just, "TENTACLES!!!!!!"

and failing.

miserably. :(

[little_bullets]

HOT KRADAM TENTACLE FIC!

Only you. ♥

[doitninetimes]

idk how to code it, but I use Calibre for my library of ebooks and it lets me add tags. I'm not sure they they actually get incorporated into the final file, though. You might also check out Sigil which is for actually editing ebooks and might be helpful, at least in the reverse-engineering what it did sense.

[lincolnkw]

What Clare said.

I do know you can do the tagging in Calibre and then use Calibre to sort it using your meta tags and then load it onto your reader in one chunk like that. The only reader I know that uses tags in any manner whatsoever is the Sony. And only in the way that you can use Calibre to sort it and then make a Collection on the Sony Reader and find stuff that way. I currently have various types of collections going on mine.

Author collection, genre collection, crossover fanfiction collection, pairing collections, fanfiction theme collections, and so forth. Items can be in more than one collection if wanted.

The Kobo, the upcoming Libre and (I think) the Nook do not support collections. As far as I know only the Sony does. I have yet to play with a Kindle so I couldn't tell you about that.

[lincolnkw]

Oop, I menat to add that you can check the mobileread.com forums and ask there - they specialize in stuff like that.

[roundaboutit]

If you use Calibre, it'll allow you to edit the metadata to add all that info.

[maryavatar]

For mobi - just add the tags and metadata in Mobipocket desktop. For epub I use Calibre, which is made of awesome. For PDF... I use Acrobat, but it's hellacious expensive.