title_body: Can a Kindle Paperwhite show metadata?
upvoted_answer: The only metadata that is visible to the user in a Kindle Paperwhite is the title and author of the ebooks.
  
  Connecting the Kindle to a PC does only help if you synced your Kindle with Calibre's library, because in this case you would have in the root folder of your Kindle a file called metadata.calibre that would contain the metadata of your ebooks in YAML format.