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So glad you asked this question. Being unable to alter that stupid date and crummy calendar without developing RSI has been driving me nuts.
Does it work on the book publishing date too? This is the one that is often wrong depending on which cover you choose when hunting metadata and not on the earliest publishing date for a book. At the moment, when it will not allow me to correct an auto input date I just delete the date leaving unspecified.
Why the silly calendar anyway? Why not just allow direct typed input of a full date if we do not like what turns up automatically? I like to arrange an author's full collection of books by the date of the first edition in the country of origin, not necessarily by the date some US publisher bought the US rights and published it in that country.
I'm also a bit tired of having to delete the Amazon or Barnes and Noble proprietary in house code appended to the ISBN numbers. After all, the "I" in the ISBN stands for "International". I don't buy books from either of these companies.
These little niggles might not matter if you are just buying one book a week, but right now I'm trying to sort out an enormous library of many thousands of books and append all the correct metadata to them. The above glitches plus regular sudden crashes by Calibre, really slow down the work flow.
Dale
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