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May be you just let CC freely changes any metadata and sync them all back to Calibre?
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Originally Posted by chaley
If I could do it that simply I would.  Unfortunately there are many complications ranging from changing calibre to permit it (currently its design does not permit devices to change metadata) through handling and syncing simultaneous change to coming up with an acceptable UI given the various calibre metadata types. Our current plans are to do only the read checkbox. |
I know this is a bit of a topic necro but since I'm commenting on the desirability of a hard-to-implement feature that's probably not going to happen, I figure it's not worth its own new thread. I am sadly aware that "Gosh I wish you would do [very hard thing] because it would be awesome" isn't the sort of feedback that makes software designers feel warm and fuzzy. But even so:
Gosh I wish it were possible/practical/reasonable to implement remote editing of metadata into the Calibre/CC ecosystem.
I have used Calibre to manage my ebook library since I got my very first 2nd-gen Kindle a rather long time ago. It's awesome. However I only just now got gifted a mobile device (Kindle Fire) that's capable of using Calibre Companion. It was the first app I bought, because it's an obvious necessity for my purposes.
And of course I love it. But my overall workflow in dealing with ebooks is that I tend to have lots of them hanging around in Calibre at any given time that need a ton of work on their metadata. Whereas I use my tablet during "dead time" in public (hospital waiting rooms and such) to read and goof off. But if I had an app that let me connect to my content library and do the equivalent of "edit metadata individually" I could work on improving my metadata during all that "out in public" time.
I know that CC is not currently that app, and I understand it probably can't become that app until and unless Calibre is changed to accept remote input (which is self-evidently a big ball of worms). I'm not enough of a programmer to contribute materially to those efforts. So I'll have to content myself with the not very useful "that's a feature that would be awesome".
