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> You see before (on right) and proposed (on Left) with an arrow to overwrite proposed with the old
Yep, that's the screen I'm in. The issue is that I don't want to overwrite the identifier in most cases, rather wish to merge them: for eg., when the download has asin and google identifiers, my local file has isbn and mobi-asin already, the best of both worlds would be to merge them. But currently the only way to do that is to manualy copy and paste and add commas and all that, and do this again and again for every book.
I guess the original idea was that identifier would be a single piece of data, but now because of several sources we have, it's actually a combination of multiple pieces of metadata. So it doesn't always make sense to "update" or "correct" the local existing identifier with the downloaded one. That's the reasoning behind my suggestion above: treat the identifiers individually rather than as a single piece of string during metadata download, so that for eg. local "asin" would be overwritten by remote "asin", but local "isbn" wouldn't be affected by remote "asin" download, instead just getting merged with it.
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