[MelBr]

Hi all,

I know there's "cover" priority and you're able to rank covers based on the source they're coming from so that if you do auto-metadata download, it will prioritize it based on that table.

However, how does Calibre choose metadata that it retrieves from multiple sources? How does it pick one over the other? Could someone please explain it to me?

Does Calibre merge data from several sources? When you're presented with choices to pick metadata from, why is there no source label on these choices that shows you where it came from?

As I've mentioned earlier, I've had pretty bad experience with auto metadata lookups and I've ended up with a large number of books that had foreign or just messed up metadata.

Currently, I set my only source of metadata to be Goodreads and perform mass-lookup there and then I check off Amazon/FF/B&N/Google and perform manual, item-by-item, lookup on books that GR failed on. (GR is probably the best source of general fiction matadata right now)

I wish I knew of a way to prioritize it however... something like: look-up on GR, if it fails, lookup on Amazon, if it fails, try B&N etc...


Thanks for any insight!