[Starson17]

I use the Content Server to grab a book and read it. I often don't have immediate access to Calibre that's running the server, so if I finish a book, or spot some bad metadata, there's nothing I can do about it. I have to remember to fix the problem or change the metadata later.

I've been wondering about a change to the search bar that would allow the metadata of all books that meet the search parameters to be changed. For example, let's say I want to mark a book as read. I'd search on the title as follows:
title:"=Huckleberry Finn"
I'd confirm it finds the one book I want marked, then I'd enter in the search bar:
title:"=Huckleberry Finn" set:#read=yes

If I see that title had a typo as in "Huckelberry Finn" I could do this:
title:"=Huckelberry Finn" set:title="Huckleberry Finn"

IOW, the "set" when found at the end of the search would trigger a metadata change, instead of being seen as a field name. The "set:" command would be followed by a field name an equals sign "=" and the value to set the field to.

Does this look useful to others? For Charles and Kovid, are there interactions between the content server and Calibre that make this difficult? Easy? It would be possible to use this on the search bar in the Calibre GUI, too. My initial thought is why bother, but I can see some applications for saved searches that modify metadata. It's primarily the content server that I'm interested in, however.

Alternatively are there other options to remotely change metadata that I haven't thought of or that are on the ToDo list?

Thanks for any comments.