Can this merging/aggregating feature be turned off?
After all of the above, I tried to be clever, using this setup:
- From Amazon and Google, remove all check marks in order to load nothing but the title pages;
- from Goodreads load everything (all check marks checked);
- but globally don't load the rating (I want to assign my own).
The intention was to get the metadata only from Goodreads, some title pages for choice from several providers, and the rating from no one.
Alas, it doesn't work, neither in the Edit Metadata (single book) nor in the bulk load:
In the Edit Metadata, it still presents 12 results -- most of them useless, as they only come with title and authors (due to my check marks settings), and the single useful result is still a merge, e.g. authors from Google or Amazon, and the comment from Goodreads.
With the bulk load, apparently it is not Goodreads that is found to be the best match, but one of the others. As I've removed so many check marks, most fields are empty and the result is useless.
What now?
I guess I can just configure Goodreads as my single and only metadata provider; I can certainly live with that. But it would be a lot more useful if the merging could just be turned off -- is that possible?