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Old 05-26-2015, 08:18 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Is there really a need to bulk download metadata in the way you suggest? Almost all the books I buy have acceptable metadata as bought. The only circumstances I generally edit the metadata is to add series info, and you wouldn't get that in a metadata update. What stores do you find don't supply good metadata?
I buy from Amazon (just 'cuz they are easy to disinfect) but there are a lot of those books that don't have good metadata embedded in the file. The chances of them having good metadata on a different site is slim - but that's a different concern.

I am also going back and organizing a large quantity of books I've collected over the years ( I just got around to using Calibre as something more than a disinfectant edit:"and content server") and some of the older books didn't have good data that would be nice to update.

Until now, all I've really cared about was getting a good cover, description, and tags and was able to do that with the Ctrl-D technique. I noticed that Calibre offered multiple covers to choose from, but only one set of metadata. I didn't realize that Calibre was picking what it thought was the best data and only showing me that. Couldn't it do something similar to how it handles covers, but with the metadata - as the OP is asking?

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