[yonkyunior]

Originally Posted by Cool Javelin

I absolutely love Calibre. It is well refined, mature, stable, all good things.

One thing I would like to see is a way to select the author, and maybe modify the title during the add books cycle.

When adding books, I get to select the book to add, then Calibre tries to guess the author and stuff from either metadata in the format, or the file name.

This works..., O.K. most of the time but a lot of the time I have to edit the metadata and change the author (because it put the last name first) or change the title (the author got included there) and maybe have to add the series and pub date.

This "after the fact" change to the metadata and perhaps subsequent relocation of the book on the disk is problematic especially if the library is on a network drive.

Rather, when selecting "add book" I'd like to select the book, then have Calibre show me the metadata it is going to use, then allow me to change it before actually adding to the disk and metadata.db file.

I searched plugins for something like this, but didn't run across anything.

Any help here?

Thanks Mark.

Q&S or CALM maybe..

actually i have separated library just for adding books, then process the metadata before i copy to my permanent library.