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Old 09-18-2011, 10:11 AM   #257
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Originally Posted by unboggling View Post
Because, if those books are Copied to Library rather than Save/Adding, that metadata doesn't get set when going from the fix-it library to the storage library.
What metadata isn't being transferred? I move books all of the time and as best I can tell all of the metadata is copied with the book.

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So in a sense they are in an incomplete state. And will stay that way forever, because once in storage library, any convert, save, or send will only update those internal fields on a copy, not the original sitting there in incomplete state forever. I understand the way people use calibre, that doesn't matter. But it bothers me.
In my opinion a proper library backup is much better then any storage library.

Have you investigated using one library and library restrictions to treat different books as if they were in different libraries.
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