Thread: Best strategy for metadata management for Kobo using Calibre?
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Old 04-20-2019, 09:18 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by ceridwen View Post
I looked at this. For my uses, there are two problems: I'm dealing with metadata from sources that FanFicFare doesn't cover, and FanFicFare's metadata handling is too manual for what I want from it. One of the obvious ways to reduce the number of collections for my particular library is to exclude tags with only one example from being made into a collection. I don't think FanFicFare can do this without my modifying it pretty heavily. I'm still considering using it as one part of my toolchain.
FFF uses regex to map tags and most other metadata from the sites to whatever you prefer. Setting it up is going to be time-consuming, but any mechanism like that will be. Calibre also has a tag mapping tool.

Extending FFF to cover other sites isn't that hard. At least, it isn't if the site is well structured. If you are downloading from sites such as AO3, it is worth looking at. It is intended for story posting sites. It isn't for stores or more traditionally published books. For those, there are a myriad of metadata source plugins.

For collections on a Kobo device, any column, or columns, can be used. I've always found tags to be useless as there are to many. But, you can populate another column by some method, or use a "column built from other columns" with an appropriate template.
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