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Originally Posted by PandathePanda
Tried Searching for an answer to my question but haven't.
I'm trying to find a way to add a description to a magazine I get digitally. What I would like is when I drop the PDF into Calibre it add the generic description (for that mag)automatically to the metadata, IE when I import Huisgenoot it'll add the description I chose |
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PandathePanda - would it be
- a different description for each edition of all magazines,
- the same description for every edition of the same magazine?
If Option 1 then surely you'll have to type the text, or copy it from somewhere, into the Comments column, or a suitable custom column. I'd opt for the latter, using a long text column type, because it has some options that are not available for the Comments column, including editing within the Book List via F2.
If Option 2 then you could write a plugin that injects the common magazine descriptions into each edition of the magazine. Or maybe it could be done via a saved bulk edit search and replace. A File Type plugin could probably make it happen automagically when the book was added. It could examine the magazine's Title to select the appropriate description text which it would put into a specified (in the plugin configuration) column.
FWIW: assuming it's Option 2, I would put the texts for the different magazines into a global snippets manager and paste from it into a custom column when I added an edition of the magazine. I invariably have to do some metadata editing when I add something to my libraries, so adding a cut and paste from my snippets library would not be a burden.
I'd do similar for option 1, except I'd cut and paste a fill-in-the-blanks pro-forma description from my snippets library.
I'd be lost without my global snippets manager - its been abandoned so I won't name it.
BR