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Originally Posted by kiwidude
@drMerry - I understood what you meant perfectly fine, it doesn't change my mind about it 
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Thanks for the explanation. The tools I do use compare all the data, leafing out the time-stamps (also for zip). This explains why I sometimes did find duplicates that your plugin didn't.
A modification of your plugin will help me in that case, but won't most of the other users (that will use your duplicate scanner).
Thanks for the explanation.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
As for covers, it may be clear to you but sadly very fuzzy to me . For an ePub when you send an ePub to your device or save to disk, Calibre is going to overwrite your cover with whatever your cover is that you store in your library if it can identify it, in exactly the same circumstances that clicking on "Update Metadata" will with this plugin. All the update metadata does is satisfy the desire of some users to do this step in advance for OCD reasons when they use the Calibre viewer directly. So I don't understand all your big cover, small cover comments or where you are trying to save space. |
If you do not understand my problem after the explanation, I think it I do not understand your function
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In my idea, this is what your plugin does (for updating metadata):
When updating metadata, the opf meta part is REPLACED with data stored in calibre (or, the calibre opf-file).
Besides that, the cover in the folder is added to the epub. If a cover already exists, it is replaced.
This would be a good option for books having no cover, a projectgutenberg cover or a bad cover. But in my case, the cover used for calibre is, in most cases, of lower quality than the cover that is stored inside my epub. So I do not want these lower quality covers to be included in my epub (not even as extra cover, in case it does not overwrite the original cover).
But, maybe I'm all wrong about this function. This is a case that I saw using one of the first versions of the plugin. Maybe the current version doesn't work that way. In that case, I'm the one who is mistaken (and made you confused).