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Originally Posted by kiwidude
@nelluk - thanks and welcome to MobileRead.
I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you are hoping to do, and why you are using both of Download tags from shelves and Sync functionality? Can you give some more details and examples of your complete workflow?
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Alright I will try to describe my workflow in detail. This will be for a downloading a book that I have not read yet, and then later on do get around to reading.
1 - Download book
2 - Add book to Calibre
3 - Link book to Goodreads
4 - In GR: Set book to one of four exclusive shelves - read/to-read/current-reading/other (in this case To-Read)
5 - Some time later, actually read the book
6 - In GR: Set book to "read" exclusive shelf
7 - In GR: Add book to one or many non-exclusive shelves for genre description. Mystery/thriller/non-fiction/etc
8 - In GR: Set read-date field and assign book a star rating
As I understand it, in Calibre if I do an operation of "sync from shelf: read", it will update several things in my Calibre database: read status, read date, star rating
In order to pull down the non-exclusive shelves from goodreads as Calibre tags, I then have to do the separate "download tags from shelves" operation.
Alternatively I could "sync from shelf" for each one of my GR genre shelves, but I have over a dozen of those. It makes much more sense to me to just sync my "read" shelf from time to time, and then pull the GR genres in as tags on a per-book basis.