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Hi DaltonST,
Sorry if this is a stupid question -and I really tried to figure this out, including searching the whole thread- but what is the "Extract Original Title/Translator" supposed to do?
At first I thought it's meant to extract additional data fields during (or using) the existing metadata lookup functionality (such as amazon metadata plugin - which doesn't extract translator even if this is listed on amazon's website) - but apparently I was wrong.
I've run it on some commercially-available, legally-bought epubs and nothing changes. I can see the "job done" in the logs, the custom columns are defined and "working" (translator is the one I'm mostly interested in), the books are in epub format, the column name is the same as in the plugin settings, I can see and edit it in the metadata window and still no go.
Then I thought maybe "Extract Original Title/Translator" is supposed to extract the info straight from the existing epub's metadata but this would be useless (if custom metadata exists in the book and there are matching fields in calibre, they would be listed, right?) - plus, none of my bought epubs have these fields (even if visiting the publisher's site or some national book database, this info is available).
So... how do I use this? (I read post #24 in this thread but I found no clear explanation).
And talking about this, can someone give me a tip about automatically populating translator(s) and original title fields from translated books? Thanks!
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