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Originally Posted by fidvo
Addendum to the long answer: It's best to get into the habit of reviewing and cleaning up all metadata manually every time you import a book or download metadata. Think of the downloaded metadata as "suggestions" rather than gospel truth, because every site does it differently.
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If you let the Garbage pile up, it WILL BE daunting.
Clean VERY frequently.
Metadata is trashy, even from the same publisher,
Even for the same series
Baen can't even use a consistent Publisher name: Baen Books, Baen Publishing enterprises. I would not mind if those were their IMPRINTS: Baen Fantasy, Baen Science Fiction
Series names
Not only not consistently done, they don't match the Publishers Catalog nor the listing inside the book and vary from book to book
Tags: A stopped up kitchen sink of a mess. Do they think there is a prize for how many tags are applied to a book??
Don't get me wrong. I like Baen. I buy A LOT of their titles, which is why I NOTICE. The sample size is larger
Other publishers are just as bad (or worse)