[Jaws]

... in particular, the "ratings", "tags", and "date" fields.

I would like to force Calibre to ignore, or at minimum zero-out, each of these fields when I'm adding a book. The "ratings" field is particularly annoying, as it is at best useless and usually inaccurate and misleading, regardless of the source of the book. The "tages" are positively useless, especially for books imported from the Big Brazilian River; most of the time, they're actively deceptive. And I simply do not care about the date that I finally get around to adding a book to my library, particularly since so many of them are "classics" and/or foreign editions and/or noncommercial.

It's only a minor annoyance -- I can, after all, manually do so for each book imported -- but it seems to me that there should be an option or setup parameter to reject or zero-out specific metadata fields. If so, I haven't found documentation for it.

Less data is better than bad data.

Anyone? Bueller?