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Old 12-21-2013, 12:14 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Personally, I've never trusted bulk data downloads; not with music, and not with books.

With all of my CD's, I've downloaded the metadata for one album at a time only, checked it for correctness and changed it where necessary, and put the album covers into the songs. Rinse, repeat.

I do the same with books, but obviously, I combine series and authors to edit. I even put the cover in myself using the new Edit Book feature. (Before, I'd use Sigil for that.) I really HATE a double cover, as Calibre will just tack a new cover page on top of the book if you let it insert covers.

I also find a list of the series on the internet first, so I can also quickly put in ISBN's and first publication dates. (And if I'm lucky, descriptions as well.) I don't care if it's the ISBN of the particular ebook, or the ISBN of a paperback or something; I just want an ISBN to refer to SOME version of the book. I also use the first publication date. If the paperback wash published in 1977, and the eBook was published in 2010, I put in 1977.

Yes, it takes more time, but I know that everything will be correct.

You know what? Bulk downloading metadata and then having to fix it often costs more time than putting in the correct stuff yourself immediately, especially if you combine authors and series.

How do you get 1800 books done like that? By doing 10 books a day. After some practice, it won't take you more than 30 minutes to do 10 *unrelated* books. Same series and authors will be faster. After 180 days, you're done.
Yea I usually work somewhat similar to that, but was starting to see the end of my own self imposed cleanup and was hoping to move it along.and you're right I'd probably end up wanting to double check everything anyway.

I also somehow have a ton of star trek books and you know I'll have fun getting the right series in for those. Happily I put them in a different cleanup library and will probably have to take my time on those bit by bit as well

It now seems that what's causing the problem is the erroneous info that's already causing a problem, so maybe I'll do an author a day or something and just get it over with. All my new books are doing what they are supposed to so that's a good thing

Thanks all for your input and for humoring me :-)
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