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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
When I add a book with read metadata from the file contents checked it adds tags to the metadata in the calibre library, if there are any.
If you use tags to create shelves then all of those tags create shelves when you send the books from calibre AFAIK.
Maybe I am wrong in this and if so I apologise for giving misleading information and an extra step.
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There is some crossed wires. You said to uncheck the "read metadata" option on the driver configuration. This is useful when connecting to the device and there is a book on the device that calibre didn't put there. It makes it more likely that you will get a match with a book in the library. That option should not be affecting the shelves or other metadata.
But, you seem to be talking about the option to read the metadata when first adding the book to the calibre library. That would only mess with the shelf columns if the metadata was in the book. That would probably mean it had been exported out of a calibre library that had the same custom columns. Personally, I do use this option, but I normally check the metadata and probably use the download metadata function to get anything missing. But, as you are using the tags column for shelves, I can see why you wouldn't want to trust someone else's opinion of these.