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Correct me if I'm wrong, but that only works if you are going into the edit metadata screen for each individual book. Because if you just hit ctrl-D (on one book or several), it does it automatically without giving you a choice. In which case, if I understand correctly, there's no way to revert back to the original metadata.
This is somewhat annoying, because it prohibits using mass downloading of metadata for several books, and even slows down doing individual books because you have to go into that special screen to do it. Although, if you've got several books I guess what you do is do them all en masse, and then figure out which ones got the wrong metadata (about 1/4 for Project Gutenbberg books, since they are really old books which usually have either multiple editions on Amazon or have been out of print since long before Amazon came along) and then go in and manually look for metadata, praying that you find an edition with metadata that works, or if not that you can reconstruct what the right metadata should be.
Thank you for your help and the prompt reply.
(Randomly, it's interesting that Calibre seems to think that Project Gutenberg books are Webster's international editions, which are in English but designed for ESL students with glossary notes at the bottom of each page. No idea why, but when Calibre gets a Project Gutenberg book wrong, it's usually by identifying it as one of those. Sometimes it's by saying it's an illustrated version, or a play based on the book or something, but usually that it's got foreign-language glossaries.)
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