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Originally Posted by repudi8or
Calibre is great but i find the thing i do the most of is cleaning up my metadata manually after bulk importing new files....
The "download metadata and covers" tends to bring me varied results. I would say after the first pass i still have 50% remaining with no metadata for mostly the following reasons
1. author and title backwards
2. title has series in it as well
3. author and title backwards and series is hyphenated after author
3. author and title backwards and author is in some variant of url syntax
4. author name is a slight variant on that found in amazon/google
5. title field has author, title and some other crud (like file type) hyphenated in the one string
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I have no hints or suggestions, but the things you list need to be addressed at the add books phase and there are quite a few tools that exist in calibre to help get the adding books phase correct.
With data as messed up as you state it is after importing books you can't expect any download metadata plugin to correct these gross errors.
I'll be glad to discuss specifics about adding books techniques but that is a separate discussion outside of the Development forum. Since this forum is for development I will step aside and let folks that can help you in that area take the lead.
Update: There is an
extract ISBN plugin that might be of help at the metadata download phase.
Good Luck.