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Old 10-29-2014, 10:17 AM   #1
paoletto
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Bulk metadata editing

Hi, I'm somewhat new of Calibre.
I started to use it to organize my previously non-organized ebooks.

My workflow currently is:
- fetch the isbn from the books (either via the Extract ISBN plugin, or by hand, where this fails)
- Download metadata from internet
- click on review the metadata for each single book
- - tipically revert the ID: field for each book, as i prefer to keep the just found ISBN rather than all the google and amazon IDs
- - click next
- - repeat

The problem:
when I do revert the ID for a book, the default selected button changes from next to cancel. The consequence is that i have to click by hand next after having reverted the ID field for every book.
Is there a keyboard shortcut to advance the bulk editing so that i do not have to tediously click in two different places for each book i process?


I have also another question: is there a way to embed the metadata without having to save to disk the files? I ask because it seems to me that sometimes Calibre fails to embed the metadata for some books upon "write to disk", and i do not understand why.. Sometimes even on PDFs, which shouldnt be a big deal. Does calibre use xMP for metadata?
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