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Originally Posted by Kythe42
Thanks for the plugin recommendation. I installed it, and there's a lot of options there, so I'm not sure if I just didn't find what I was looking for because I missed it, or if it wasn't there. I only have one library at the moment that deals with books, so many of the things that the plugin deals with might not be relevant to me. On top of that, even when dealing with books, I always enter metadata manually to make sure it comes out the way I want.
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I had these three Job Spy tools in mind
- Per-Library Tweak for Calibre Global Tweak for Author Sort Method
- Per-Library Tweak for Adding Books for 'read file metadata' from either file contents or file name
- Per-Library Tweak for Book Automatic Adding Directory
They are documented starting at post #190 in the Job Spy thread.
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Originally Posted by Kythe42
Really the first setting that appears to be global that relates to what I'm doing is the option to have a cover image show up in the book details side panel. I might want this for some books but not others. It really does seem like something that you should be able to set on a per library setting. Perhaps I should just try to ignore it.
Something that's a much bigger deal is that it seems that the tweaks settings are global, or at least the specific one I'm looking at, which is to customize the order of custom metadata fields. This one I really do need to be able to set it differently for each library given that the custom fields are going to be completely different in each library. I could find no function to edit this with the plugin.
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When I started with calibre I couldn't get the single book metadats edit dialogues into a shape with which I was comfortable. But then I discovered I do all my metadata editing in the booklist - including long text custom columns. I make use of the View Manager plugin to order the columns in the optimal sequence for entering the data for the different libraries; and I can reorder the columns for one off situations by dragging the headers around or hiding/showing columns. I also make considerable use of the recent enhancement to copy & paste metadata values between 'books'; for me its a boon, especially in my periodicals library.
BR