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misc · 12-09-2014, 11:32 AM

Hi Dalton,

I know you want support questions by PM, but this is more of a general n00b question than anything that might count as a bug report or something. I think the answer would be generally useful. I also get that you want to keep this plugin to a small and self selecting user base with the technical chops to use this without handholding. That said, I have been spending so much time cleaning metadata in my pathologically large collection, that I find the promise of this plugin too alluring to resist. And given that this is clearly a power tool, I'd like to avoid picking it up by the wrong end and losing an arm.

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Very basic question, really. Could you explain what you mean by the "pristine library" concept, just a little more slowly? I think my confusion ultimately stems from this:

"2) Copy Calibre Pristine Author/Series Data to Q&S (but only if it is truly “pristine”. Better nothing than garbage)."

What do "Calibre Pristine Author/Series Data" and "Q&S" mean in this sentence? Could this sentence be rewritten as "From your existing Calibre library, choose books that you have established to have clean metadata, and copy them to the QuarantineAndScrub library that you downloaded from me"?

Right now I have a very large library. Some of the metadata is clean. Some of it is not. Part of my whole problem is that I don't have a fast, automatic way to separate the two. Does step 2 mean I should spend some time to round up as many "clean" books as possible?

Thanks!

12-09-2014, 11:32 AM	#48
misc Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Device: iPad	Hi Dalton, I know you want support questions by PM, but this is more of a general n00b question than anything that might count as a bug report or something. I think the answer would be generally useful. I also get that you want to keep this plugin to a small and self selecting user base with the technical chops to use this without handholding. That said, I have been spending so much time cleaning metadata in my pathologically large collection, that I find the promise of this plugin too alluring to resist. And given that this is clearly a power tool, I'd like to avoid picking it up by the wrong end and losing an arm. </preamble> Very basic question, really. Could you explain what you mean by the "pristine library" concept, just a little more slowly? I think my confusion ultimately stems from this: "2) Copy Calibre Pristine Author/Series Data to Q&S (but only if it is truly “pristine”. Better nothing than garbage)." What do "Calibre Pristine Author/Series Data" and "Q&S" mean in this sentence? Could this sentence be rewritten as "From your existing Calibre library, choose books that you have established to have clean metadata, and copy them to the QuarantineAndScrub library that you downloaded from me"? Right now I have a very large library. Some of the metadata is clean. Some of it is not. Part of my whole problem is that I don't have a fast, automatic way to separate the two. Does step 2 mean I should spend some time to round up as many "clean" books as possible? Thanks!