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Originally Posted by ippopom
And TnX to Calvin too, I done what you suggested but I have a really massive library so the twice copy paste (to a text editor and inside comments) is a little bit "time wasting".
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Yeah, it's really only worthwhile for the initial entry-and maybe only in Windows where you can keep the Notepad window open beside Calibre, and maybe your Web browser. What I do is find the comments I want to keep in Calibre's download metadata screen. If I like how they're formatted I let Calibre download them-but sometimes I like the comments from one source & the other metadata (like publisher/date) from another. So I highlight the comments in the download window, Ctrl+C to copy to the clipboard, mouse-click to the open Notepad window, back to Calibre & finish the metadata download from whichever source. Then back to Notepad, Ctrl+A to select all, Ctrl+C to copy it, then back to Calibre & highlight whatever's in the comments, then Ctrl+C to paste from notepad. Really only takes a second or so if I don't have to edit anything or search out other sources-not much time at all compared to the time it takes Calibre to find the metadata in the 1st place. But you're right about it being a time waster for comments that have already been entered into Calibre. I'm not an expert with Regular Expressions but I have used them and that's a better approach for modifying Comments 'in place'.