Thread: Purpose to ids/isbns in calibre?
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Old 08-02-2015, 03:24 PM   #1
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Purpose to ids/isbns in calibre?
I'm switching ebook formats and so am taking this opportunity to start from scratch and build my library correctly with calibre. Before, I'd only used calibre for quick conversions and such and didn't pay attention to the rest. Now my goal is to format things correctly as they come into calibre and my query is what purpose do the ids serve? I can't decide whether to leave them be, try to give them to all books or erase all of them for minimalism's sake.

I'm also specifically curious about public domain books - I've been fooling around with some in calibre and when I download metadata it includes ids for versions I did not buy. Is there any advantage to keeping some id for a public domain book even if it's linked to a buyable version you didn't get?
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