Thread: Pros & Cons of using the Calibre GUI
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Old 08-09-2018, 09:47 PM   #73
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Originally Posted by sealbeater View Post
If only saying so made it so. Well, read other's comments on how it works and see for yourself. Or live in a reality created in your own mind. Up to you which.
Yes, it was a pretty stupid thing to say considering how I knew you would answer. Basically everything you said was a condescending little quip or something to avoid an actual answer. But, maybe I didn't make things clear enough.

You did comment on reading comprehension. And I can make the same comment. You seem to think that I am saying these scripts don't work. I have never said that. I questioned the word "perfect". And that is based on my understanding of calibre and how it fetches metadata. The simple fact is, that is not perfect. And the only way to get close to perfect is to already have nearly perfect metadata. You need the correct ISBN or a title and author that is correct. Any spelling mistakes in them and the likelihood of getting the wrong book, or no book, is high. Throw a colon in the title and again, the likelihood of an error is high. Especially if the first part is a series name.

All that means is that you have to do some preprocessing to get the correct results. Your implication has always been that you just run the script against a directory and there are no errors. But, you finally seem to be admitting that there are and that you have to fix them some other way. After all, why would you have have a problem directory?

You dismissed my statement about the file called "smashwords-epub-a030871b-dc97-493b-b4e8-7ebe19777523.epub" saying that I should try it and see. I don't need to try it, I can read code, I know how it works and I can see its limitations. But, what I wanted to know was how you handled these. Your statements imply that you don't do any manual processing but reply completely on the scripts. And that isn't possible with the file names that are coming from the shops. So, how do you handle this? There is nothing in that file name that tells you what the book is. And the book doesn't have an ISBN inside it. So, how do you handle this?

Of course, you used someone elses test to show how this is "perfect". Of course, that person reported 99% accuracy, which last time I checked, isn't perfect. And to me that is worse, that 1 book that failed was actually correct but treated as an error. That demonstrates the scripts are not perfect.
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