Thread: Author Initials and Goodreads Metadata
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Old 09-24-2017, 11:22 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Rellwood View Post
I only wish GR would follow suit and remove the spaces in their author names because import list and gr sync have problems with matching books when their initials have no spaces.
As stated above, the issue isn't Goodreads, but calibre. It passes the returned metadata through a method to clean it. This includes putting a space after any dots in the name. If you don't like the behaviour, you can run from source and make a change on ebooks/metadata/sources/base.py to the method cap_author_token. It's easy to fix the case of adding the space, but harder to remove the extra space if it is already there. Otherwise, I suggest raising a change request and seeing if Kovid or someone else is interested in adding an option or tweak to change this behaviour.
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