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Originally Posted by theducks
Not really.
1)have a custom column to mark Metadata is now Golden. Use a VL to exclude these titles, when working on metadata updates. (outa-sight...out-harms way)
2)Embed Golden metadata into the book. Allows recovery FROM the book. (the brown book icon in the MDE)
3)Backups for those  moments.
4)Plain old care. IMHO BULK (many books) operations are a chance to mess up and include a couple of wrong ones (those you did not want to change).
5)Use the content server for tasks where no changes are needed
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Yep, the above. #1 is especially helpful.
Additions to my library are automatically marked with a [new] tag. I have a virtual library based on this tag and set it as the default VL to open (Preference > Behavior > Virtual library to apply when the current library is opened). Once I'm done editing metadata, that's when I remove the [new] tag.
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I add books to an Intake library and get the basics (title, authors, publisher, pubdate, subtitle, subtitle and primary tags) right before moving to target library. I have an Admin Tags custom column which is where I put a
new tag, I use the built in Tags column strictly for subject tagging.
And I add a customised (all columns) book jacket to the final version of EPUBs, which I move to the back of the book with Sigil. Sigil because I can remove superfluous metadata easier in it (F8), than I can in the calibre editor (text edit content.opf).
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