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Originally Posted by AZBooks
Thanks all. We do appreciate the advice. However, this thread is aiming in the wrong direction..obviously lot's of passion about Calibre's feature set.
Just the addition of a new and unknown file type (OPF) in our book folders will cause enough issues with family members.
I will try to figure out the difference between:
Save to Disk .vs "Modify" .vs "Polish"
...all 3 suggested as the best way to save metadata to the file.
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AZBooks, I hear your frustration - but there is no best way in Calibre, just different ways - one could criticise it for having too many ways.
I hope you wont take offence at some advice from someone old enough to be your father
But you may be better off asking specific questions about specific features rather than general 'what's the best way' style of questions.
I don't use Save to Disk often but I keep it simple - see below for my Save to Disk settings. The net result of those settings is Author folders that only contain epub files whose file names are the same as those in the Calibre library.
Why I use Modify - to get rid of redundant embedded artefacts including the cover! And to position the book jacket at the back of the book - the latter's done via a hack to the Modify PI. The only alternatives I can think of are, edit the EPUBS with Sigil, or use Calibres Tweak Books and edit the HTML. I can do Modify with MenuKey->UpArrow->Enter->Enter.
And as I also said, I just prefer to have the current metadata in the format files in the book folder without having to export the book via - Send to Device, Save to Folder or Send in an Email - none of which I ordinarily use.
Before I discovered Modify, I used Save to Disk to get an epub with the up to date metadata onto the desktop, then I drag dropped that file back to Book Details, and deleted it from my desktop
I did not come to Calibre with a predefined set of detailed requirements, they've evolved both because of externalities and because of what I've learnt about Calibres features and their possibilities.
Example : as a result of a chance comment by theducks I recently I discovered how to insert custom columns into book jackets - up until then I regarded book jackets as useless. But when I saw the result, I said to myself "I don't want this at the front of the book, I want it at the back of the book", so I bit the bullet and hacked the plugin - removed 3 or 4 lines of code.
BR