|
To prefer or not to prefer
The "Date" column of a book in Calibre Library View is supposed, I think, to be the date when the book was added to Calibre. However, since Calibre lets me edit the "Date" arbitrarily, I can really use it for any date of my personal preference, including the date of my first encounter with the book, perhaps well before the creation of the Calibre app itself. MR's "Prefer Calibre Date" feature (when turned on) plus "Update Metadata (only)" really opens up another useful way of interacting with Calibre.
On the other hand, (for non-calibre-originated books) it is useful to know easily the few books I most recently added to MR. MR's "Prefer Calibre Date" feature when turned off (by default) serves that purpose well too.
|