[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Gary_M_Mugford

I've unchecked the box that overrules author name and book title over-writing when importing metadata, which is a spectacularly good tool.

I'm glad you like it. It's the first bit of code I wrote for Calibre. It got me started looking into the Calibre code base.

Most of the time, it's not because it's replacing Great Book with Great Book: The Novel. It's because it's replacing Great Book With Long Title with Great book with long title.

Yes, improper casing in my books was also an important reason I wrote that bit of code.

It's a matter of preference, but I like my book titles proper cased. And I type it in, in proper case, only to have the search screw it up again.

I'm confused. If you have the option turned off, it shouldn't be changing what you type in. That's what it's for.

I know that there is probably NOT a setting to have the search auto-Proper Case book information on retrieval, but I thought I'd ask.

I suppose you're thinking about where you override the default (I hope you like that feature, too - I found it convenient to add the override to the fetch page so you could overwrite or not regardless of your default setting.) I figured if you are overwriting, then you should overwrite, if you are not overwriting, Calibre shouldn't touch what you typed.

Auto-correcting of case is not trivial for a program that supports non-English users, but you can request it. Part of the problem was option-creep. You may have noticed that you can overwrite author/title as a pair, but not overwrite the author, but not the title. It would have been easy to add two separate option boxes. I could also have added option boxes for publisher, dates, etc. Kovid rightly has a concern about too many option boxes being confusing, and I'm not sure whether he would add another to attempt to autocorrect title case.