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Originally Posted by Starson17
I can't think of any reason for the bulk fetch to differ in the way it handles the series field from the way it's handle in the single metadata fetch.
Can you?
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Having no actual programming experience I can't directly answer this question. From a strictly functional point of view I can see a reason when downloading metadata for a group of books to operate differently from downloading metadata for 1 book.
Say I add twenty books from a series and four of these books had some metadata that filled in the series field. If I chose to update all twenty books at once and the series info from librarything was different then the four books that already have metadata, I would want the 16 without series info to be filled in and the 4 with series data that doesn't match also changed to match. It is easy to rename an entire series but hunting and changing those 4 is more difficult. So if I do a mass metadata update I might prefer overwriting the series info.
But on a one on one single book at a time I would definitely not want the series info overwritten.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
The reason is simply that you may want to use the bulk download to automatically correct incorrectly set metadata from a previous import (that is how i use it, for example)
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The technical writer in me spit out about a hundred and fifty words to say what you just did in about 20 words.
