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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Okay, NOW I think I see what's going on.
Atherton25, please look in your FFF settings, do you have "Search by Title/Author(s) for If Story Already Exists?" on or off?
If you have it off, please check it on and try your test again.
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You're right, it fixed it.
But, I keep that unchecked for a reason, since I've run into sites that have 2 different versions of a story and generally I want both. Plus, this issue doesn't really bother me much, I can simply search for duplicates with duplicate finder (by url) and delete them when I do this. It was fathertyme that had brought it up. At least it helped (possibly) identify an issue he and others might be having. I'll try and remember to note even more calibre options next time if there's a possible issue.
Moving on, I know this has been brought up before in some form (probably by me) but I've had a lot of new issues/stories that I've had to make edits in my personal.ini for. My current personal.ini has 90+ (and growing) specific story's now in it to 'fix' this, I'm going to ask about it.
The issue actually stems is mostly due to the way the wuxia sites do things, and even worse on some than others. Generally due to translation, sometimes the title/author can vary a bit from site to site, and sometimes they even just use the Chinese/Japanase name rather than a translation. Also the description can be really screwy (on royal road as well), adding a lot of superfluous (update schedules for example, but a while back I had one wuxia story that had like 5 pages in the description that was not needed).
As far as I know (based on past questions) the only way to keep an edited version of a new title/author/description in the FFF metadata (specifically on the title page) is to manually add it into the personal.ini.
Am I incorrect? If I'm not, how difficult would it be to have an option to grab the calibre metadata instead of the website metadata? I know I can edit it in calibre and use options to keep the calibre data the same, but it never reflects inside the book title page for those specific options. If it's too difficult just ignore me, I'm probably the only person that gets so annoyed by this issue partly because I really like clean, proper metadata, partly because some wuxia sites don't always give a real description and I have to get it from another site (generally novelupdates.com) for something that actually makes sense.
On a side note, somehow getting a downloaded story to interconnect with novelupdates and pulling metadata from their would be awesome but likely way too much work.