diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 14ff62899..420af87f9 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@
 [submodule "l10n"]
 	path = l10n
 	url = https://github.com/koreader/koreader-translations.git
+[submodule "metadata"]
+	path = metadata
+	url = https://github.com/koreader/koreader-metadata
diff --git a/metadata b/metadata
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..98fd6c8fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/metadata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 98fd6c8fe0f3442a62346ee44454301007db3d8b