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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
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.
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Another advantage is that it won't change the order of the metadata at any point unless the user specifically goes in and changes it themselves.
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
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.
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Point 1 - They can 'not show' the column but it will always be visible if they go into single Edit Metadata. It'll always be down the bottom but it'll be there.
Point 2 - It doesn't matter how you set it up. It's never going to be completely idiot proof.
My only concern is that the metadata in the column is properly labelled so that the user will know what they're looking at.
Otherwise I think it's a good alternative to your original idea.