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Originally Posted by dwanthny
That's the confusing part, until you run into a book you're adding that has the date field set in it all you've seen was today's date. But all of a sudden you got a copy of some PD epub from a friend, add it to calibre, and expect it to have today's date like the last 840 books you added but it places the date from the epub's metadata and poof "the date has shifted".
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Aha! I was thinking that the date was set at some desired value, then changed to something else. I can see it would be confusing if you added a book and didn't see today's date when you added it, if that's all you'd ever seen. I almost never allow Calibre to use internal book metadata during an Add.
It seems to be really bad most of the time. Since I have "Get metadata only from filename" almost always turned on, I never get the internal metadata date, even if it's there. If I'm adding lots of books, I always have the "Get metadata only from filename" turned on, and I check the filename (and the Add regex) to ensure a good title/author. If I'm adding a single book, I just check all the metadata, or, more often, leave "Get metadata only from filename" turned on, then single edit metadata and use the internal button that extracts metadata from a specified format. I can watch it and check for any errors, including the date metadata error.