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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
What happens if someone uses Embed Metadata or Polish Books? I wouldn't exactly be surprised to find out there are people who do it in bulk on the whole library at regular intervals. 
Keeping the metadata in the EPUB is not IMHO a good move. I suggest keeping it in a cache.db in the plugins folder. |
That's a good point. I forget some people are particular about that.
However, I'm more likely to abandon the idea entirely than add a whole new database. |
Here's another thought: the metadata could be kept in a long-text type custom column.
This offers certain advantages:
- It's not going to be polished away.
- It's visible to the user, so they know if a particular book has it.
- It could be populated/updated with 'Update Calibre Metadata Only' without having to do epub update.
- It can still be copied to other libraries, assuming they have the same column.
- Save time by not having to read the epub to get it.
Disadvantages:
- It's visible to the user, but they can 'not show' the column to hide it.
- User could poke at it and break it.