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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
To be honest with you, Starson17, you went completely over my head so I have no idea what to answer.
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You're about to send a book from your library to the small library you keep for your brother. Normally, you'd use Copy to Library and send it, and it's done. However, suppose your brother says: "Last week you gave me a great book on 'The Art of Applying Clown Makeup,' but it's in rtf format, and I really want it in EPUB."
You reply: "Oh, that book is really tricky to convert, but you're in luck, I converted it last week, it's in my big library and I also downloaded a review of the book in that's in my 'comments'" You now want to send it to him.
Here's your choices:
Currently: select the book in your library and choose Copy to Library. He will get a second book entry (a duplicate of yours), with all the formats you have, including your new converted format. and your new metadata in comments. He can use Merge to combine his two records for that book or leave them as duplicates. Merge would append your comments into his record.
Next release (code is already in the main trunk): select the book in your library and choose Copy to Library. If you have the autosort/automerge option turned on, your new format will move directly into his existing record for that book. Your same format will not go to him. Your other metadata will not go into his library. If you do not have the autosort/automerge option turned on, the same thing described above under "Currently" will occur and he'll have a duplicate record in his library. He could then do a Merge as described above to get the metadata from you into his record.
Question I am asking: If you have the autosort/automerge option turned on, do you want your metadata to go to him, with your new format, exactly
as if he had received a duplicate record and done a Merge?