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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I like to have matching covers in series.
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That's funny, I'm exactly the same way. And then will use one of the Calibre plugins to swap the old non-matching cover for the new one I chose within the book so it displays on my reader.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I use Calibre's Find Metadata tool and it is usually 'right enough' for me. I mean, I do make sure it is the correct book. But as long as the title, author, publisher and synopsis are okay, that's all I care about. And really, publisher isn't a major concern of mine.
Series I edit manually if they don't auto-populate. And I'm not a big fan of series anyway.
Beyond that, when you are talking eBooks, what is 'correct'?
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My main concerns are of course the title, author and correct synopsis. I'm not worried about the dates too much either nor the publisher. Numbers in a series I do want correct though, I like to read series in proper order, and many times what's imported is missing or just wrong, or 3 different ways to list the same series, which I'll keep to one concise name. I usually refer to the author's site or Goodreads to verify the series order.
But I've also seen many instances when the wrong book entirely is selected when trying to use the auto metadata, and that's what creates the headache trying to clean up, when the title and author of the book have been changed by the auto function. That's the main thing I want to avoid and why I'll never use auto metadata or bulk metadata methods.