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Originally Posted by lumpynose
I'm not exactly sure what Timboli is thinking of making but what I think would work for me is something like Calibre's catalog, but have it fetch the metadata you get when you do Download metadata and covers.
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I've never used that Calibre option, as generally the basic metadata exists for me, as well as the cover ... synopsis often excepted. Sometimes I have had to manually download the cover from the Amazon web page, but pretty rare to need to these days.
I guess for many of us, while our collections were relatively small, the synopsis for each book was not a biggie. Now of course, I have no idea what most of my ebooks are about, and I expect most others are in the same boat.
It is great to see that Kindle books now tend to come with a synopsis, even if not present in the metadata. What would be ideal, is if the calibre Catalog option could obtain that synopsis, perhaps even add it to the metadata file. The only issue perhaps, is when the 'Description' field is already populated by other crap .... reviews etc and markup code.
My program would do something very similar to the calibre Catalog option, but just give a bit more manual control over some elements (i.e. specify the Genre, rather than be stuck with an atrocious number of Tags). You could also manually obtain and paste in the synopsis, combining with or replacing any existing description. You could also specify Series within Series, and for multiple author ebooks, specify one as Author/Editor, as distinct from the 'Creator' fields in the metadata.