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Old 04-29-2015, 10:22 AM   #106
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu View Post
So I'm working on a new feature that would be helpful for adding custom columns and populating them from existing epubs without having to go out to the sites again.

Specifically, a feature to:
  • First, invisibly save all the metadata FanFicFare collects in the epub--even if you don't use it all, and;
  • Second, let you update calibre metadata from that saved metadata in the epub without going back out to the site.
Saving the metadata isn't too hard--calibre already does it whenever you save or send an epub.

But what's a good way to integrate part 2 into the FanFicFare PI user interface? So far, I'm thinking about:
  1. A new menu option at the same level as 'Download for URLs' and 'Update Existing FanFiction Books'?
  2. A new 'If Story already Exists' option? In addition to 'Update EPUB if New Chapters', etc, and 'Update Calibre Metadata Only' add 'Update Calibre Metadata from EPUB'?
  3. Change the behavior of the existing 'Update Calibre Metadata Only' option to use the epub metadata whenever available and only revisit the site when it's not available. (Also insert metadata into epub when it has to revisit?)
  4. An checkbox option, either in config or on the add/update dialog that modifies 'Update Calibre Metadata Only' to either use existing epub metadata or goes out to the site?
Any suggestions? Opinions?
I'm greatly in favor of this idea. I also like @ILB's suggestion

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Originally Posted by ILB
How about to change 'Update Calibre Metadata Only' to 'Update Calibre Metadata from webpage' and add 'Update Calibre Metadata from EPUB'?
This way if someone is looking to do a bulk update they don't hit the website on the first go around at all. FFF does it's thing, you get a list back of the ones that updated and the ones that didn't and can then go back and work on updating through the site just the ones that need to be. Easy peasy if you have a FFF Log column.

As for @eschwartz's suggestion I can't really say one way or the other which would be better - stored to the epub or a cache db. I will say that I personally rarely use the Embed Metadata or Polish Books features and I've never used it on more than the book I'm currently working on.
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