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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Because I'm adding the books by ISBN. I'm using Calibre to catalog my physical books alongside the eBooks.
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To be clear, are you saying that you only input the ISBN10 and then perform the metadata download with the title and author fields empty/"unknown" and you need the ISBN to remain in the Identifiers column so that there's something to search against to find the correct metadata?
If so, you could copy & paste the ISBN into a custom column before you do the metadata download. This will definitely work if you're either inputting or downloading metadata on a book-by-book basis (which is my preferred method, because I like to verify that the correct book is found).
If that isn't your workflow, maybe you could clarify? (I know that it's possible to bulk
move things from one column to another using the Search & Replace function, but I'm not sure you can copy, leaving the original intact. Maybe someone else has more info on that, or maybe the answer is in the documentation.)