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I hadn't seen that other thread before. It's been on my list to do something about in my copy of the source as it drives me up the wall to have my carefully constructed series and tags overwritten by garbage from the metadata sources.
Even "changing workflow" doesn't solve everything, not when you are wanting to use the series names from the filename at import - because that means your "workflow" becomes don't fetch metadata at all.
Also my situation has been that I retrieved metadata for thousands of titles when I first imported them. Then I realised that all the ratings were being averaged too low for my liking until I turned off the ratings from LibraryThing. However I only realised that "much later" so now have a large amount of titles that I would effectively like a "Download only rating" menu option for to get new averages for - not overwriting my carefully setup tags and series like "Get only social metadata" does.
Basically you are out of luck until one day there will be a dialog to control this. Your workflow if you want metadata has to be download it first, then manually go and overwrite the inconsistent garbage when you get it. Then don't EVER retrieve metadata again for that book unless you want to do your data entry all over again.
Turning off series downloading completely isn't a desired option for me because sometimes my filenames don't have the series in the filename and I don't realise there are other books in a series until the metadata tells me there might be.
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