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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You dont need to set the tweak differently per library, you simply add all the fields from all the libraries intot hat tweak, fields that dont exist in a particular library will simply be ignored.
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Thank you. It took a lot of reboots to figure out how to get the order right since some of the fields do overlap between libraries. And that was only merging two of them. I can only imagine how much fiddling it will take to merge the fields of five libraries, which is what I'll have if I end up doing all of my planned projects on Calibre. It did eventually work though.
@BetterRed
I did see those, they just really weren't relevant to my needs since I only have one library that's used for books at the moment.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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.
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I'm glad that works for you, but I'm really not comfortable with editing everything in the booklist view, especially with the number of fields I have in some libraries. There's just too much there, and it's far too easy to accidentally edit something in the wrong row. This is part of why I'm trying to get away from Excel. Having a form to enter everything in a single entry without the other entries distracting me is much preferred. I did experiment with forms in Excel at one point, but found them awkward to use. Thankfully, I was able to get the custom fields how I liked them through trial and error.