Regarding the 'Add Books' function.
Or, specifically, the first option regarding reading data from file contents rather then file name. There is a good side and a bad side to this. When reading from file contents, I won't have to worry about whether or not the epub file has a cover, because it is displayed in the left panel. Bad side? A lot of the files have to be renamed with Calibre, and since I can't 'Tab Down' in order to select *just* titles, I have to manually click every book that has to be renamed.
With regards to reading from file name, I honestly see no problems except for one really big one: When reading from File Name, the cover isn't displayed. So I have no idea if the book has a cover until *after* I save it to disk.
Also, a low point with both is the lack of metadata when re-adding books to calibre.
So can someone tell me if it's possible to view covers with *Reading from File Name' if not, can someone tell me how to 'Tab Down' Instead of 'Tabbing Right'? I seldom need to edit the authors, just the titles when they say things like [Series Title][Title] - Author (This is after I've deleted the series title from the name. However, the metadata seems to be preserved even still. I usually wouldn't have a problem with that, however, finding metadata for those books is next to impossible without editing the title.
Also, unrelated but something *really* annoying: When I download bulk metadata, sometimes it grants me metadata for a completely different book. For example, I wanted the data for 'Winds of Change' by Lee Rowan' and it gave me the metadata for 'Why God is King'. (As a non-Christian, this offended me. I don't keep that sort of rubbish in my house.) I think this was with extracting from ISBN, which is scary since I wasn't aware that books can share the same ISBN.
Any advice regarding this? Thanks!
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