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Originally Posted by davidfor
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.
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I said in message 2 of this thread which was a reply to message 1.
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2. select preferences>adding books
put the shelf name you want in the box 'tags to apply when adding books" and uncheck the box that says read metadata from the file contents.
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I think we are talking about different things. I was trying to give a simple if kludgy way to shelve his books on his kobo but keep his own file structure. I don't believe I mentioned the driver anywhere. I was assuming he would still have the default driver setting to make shelves from tags if he was not using calibre to manage his books. Possible bad assumption.
It wasn't a question of trusting someone elses tags. He had very specific shelf names in his original post so probably did not want to use tags in the books themsleves, or so I assumed.
And I do not find all tags in all books to be what I want, I had a library book that had an excerpt from the book as a tag, and I dout it would have been meaningful as a shelf name.
I certainly wasn't casting aspersions on your driver
which I truly appreciate. I am very sure I did not refer to it at all
Helen
PS tags are a standard column I think