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Originally Posted by kaufman
Well, I'll go back to (more or less) what I said before, if you think this (option 2) is doable, it would be a nice feature to have, but if it's going to add a zillion support headaches, then it's probably not that important.
What do you think of the idea of showing a dialog allowing people to modify the title/author when a book is imported? I'm sure people will ask for full metadata editing, but if you just allowed them to do those 2, it would make it easier to match books already in calibre, or to remember what the book was later after they had uploaded it from cc to calibre.
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Not matching calibre is not an issue with option 2 as described. The metadata.opf file contains the UUID and the title/author from the calibre library. The metadata in the book is ignored.
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Originally Posted by kaufman
One other thing. I am convinced that you shouldn't publish the ability to get epub files because of all of the "why isn't cc working as an e-reader" complaints you will get, but I would like to suggest a concept for the import from Director function:
In options,
people can define a default import dirctory or select "ask each time"
People can select whether to delete the file after import
Then, on the main menu, have an "import new files" which would scan the directory and import all the files that were of a type that this user had selected locations for.
This would minimize the number of steps people would have to go through to import files.
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Yes, we will do something like this. But again, be aware that we will import from a calibre directory, not a book. That directory must contain at least one format, the metadata.opf, and cover.jpg.
I might add a "listener" in CC that advertises it can handle .opf files. That would permit someone to select the opf in a file manager and hand it to CC. CC would then get the folder containing the opf and get the book + cover.