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Originally Posted by unboggling
How about consistency in the files? Thinking further about it, yes, there's no need I can think of. Thx for the response.
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Scratch that. Here's a case needing consistency in files as well as metadata.
I need to bulk change a bunch of metadata in the format files on a bunch of books, both e and p, because i just changed from FN LN to LN, FN in authors and I want to incorporate all those metadata changes in the actual book format files which I had previously set to contain the old FN LN metadata.
Normally as I understand it I accomplish this by doing a send to disk then creating a new library and then bulk adding all my books to it. But, the empty books in Library1 aren't there in Library2. What do I have to do to get them there? Add them to Library2, which is a clunky should-be-unnecessary extra step.
And if I later add eBook formats to those empty book files, as I gradually convert from p to e, I'll have inconsistent metadata within my library and have to hand edit it when that could have been avoided.
It's not a huge issue. A temporary solution now would be for me to write a script for empty txt files after all, as earlier suggested in this thread. I assume in a send to disk, calibre would write the new metadata to the dud-book empty txt files if I had them, which would solve the problem.
But it is a consistency issue. There may be other cases.