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Originally Posted by TheMadGuy
Well, my other big database is DVDProfiler.... Every user fills profiles and they are all contributed to a database. With creating standards (not to call it "rules") everyone fills the fields with the same system and everyone could profit from.
Just imagine if all the data you enter is sent to a database where everybody else could use what you have allready done and doesn't need to fill it again. I've been teached that it's not necessary to invent the wheel twice  |
Fine, but including that field as standard in Calibre won't fill it in automatically. Calibre doesn't have an online repository of metadata. It downloads metadata from other sites that have no direct connection to Calibre. So even if it included the Subtitle field by default, that still wouldn't get you what you want. You would have to convince all the major ebook metadata sites to add that field to their databases as well.
And keep in mind that it's impossible to create a comprehensive set of fields that cover every possibility. You think a Subtitle field should be standard, but I have no need for that field. I think a Subseries field should be standard, but you may not have a need for that one. Ask everyone who uses Calibre what fields they think should be standard, and you'll probably have a list in the thousands, many of which overlap and duplicate functionality because people organize their books in different ways and always think their way is the "right" way.
Better to go with a minimum set of standard fields and let the users add extras as needed. Exactly the way Calibre already does it. Yes, the drawback is that you have to fill in these fields by hand instead of downloading them from an online source. But better that than the mess of trying to make everyone's favorite fields standard.