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Originally Posted by Hitch
@eschwartz:
You don't get it. As near as I can tell, what he's proposing is either an editor (standalone) or an app/program that's a browser-based SAAS, that will have all these fields that MUST BE completed. In other words, the app does extensive error-checking, so you're forced into filling it out.
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I assure you, I get it.
Excuse me, validating the metadata input fields won't do anything.
If I were the moron filling out garbage metadata, the mandatory fields would quickly find themselves filled with aaaaaaaaaa's.
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His idea that you'd be FORCED to fill in the metadata fields--sort of ePUBcheck upfront (hell, maybe we could install ZAPPERS!!! You try to ignore something like, "nationality of author" metadata, and you're lightly electrocuted), just makes my head hurt. The reality is, this poster is rather OCD. He wants to force everyone else to submit to what HE thinks is "important" in eBooks, instead of adapting his views--or, for that matter, tweaking the books to suit what HE wants. We've all said, 50x, that he can add whatever goddamned metadata he wants, to ePUB, and he's roundly ignoring us.
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ZAPPERS!
I want some zappers for the MR posting box. Anyone who disagrees with me gets zapped.
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So, really, kids: I guess the problem is, the forums are slow, and we don't have anything better to do, so we keep playing in this particular sandbox, is that it? 
Hitch
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Indeed, and I called it a dozen pages ago.