[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

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.

I use Polish Book for that. I like to have everything in the book; metadata and cover.

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.

I go much further.

I have "super series". All the Drizzt books by Salvatore are in a series, but they are all part of "The Legend of Drizzt", book 1 to three gazillion.

Also I have "Arches"; For example, the Discworld Series has 41 books. Discworld 1, 2, 5, 9, 17.... are about Rincewind, but they're not really a series on their own. So, those books are in the Rincewind arch.

In case I need something special, I have an Annotations field, and a Collections one, to put the book into additional collections apart from Series and Author, on my KA1.

Yeah, I'm going overboard, I know. I'm crazy. But I want it like that; I want to be able to know everything about a book and series by opening only Calibre, without having to look on the internet.

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.

If metadata is wrong, you'll never be able to find the book. You'll have to open it and fix it by hand. It's better to just fix it when it goes into Calibre.