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Originally Posted by BetterRed

Have you considered voice input via the MacOS built-in tools, or Nuance's Dragon 'whatever it is called on a Mac'.

I tried Dragon 5 several years ago. It would go haywire. It is designed to replace the keyboard and mouse, and doesn't work well in combination with them. It would start to jump about and add or remove text here or there.

... This was bad enough when writing up research, and switching back and forth between source documents and the appropriate places in the working text. It would be even worse with data entry.

It also ignores its own settings. For example, I set it to use digits instead of spelling out numbers, it ignored this setting to keep spelling out numbers.

It also requires voice correction and goes haywire after manual correction, but also goes haywire after voice correction.

Since copying titles from the source and pasting them into the appropriate field is goingto require keyboard+ mouse work, it isn't going to work well with Dragon. Since changing capitalization, etc. is also going to requiring typing and precise formatting, it isn't going to work at all with Dragon.

I think I've already said that I find it much easier to enter metadata into the book list cells than into the single MDE dialogue boxes.

If I have to get data from web sites etc, I find it much easier to type/copy the fields into a text file that I display in my file manager's preview panel which I position under the main calibre window.

I'm not sure what you mean, but that requires just as much copying and pasting doesn't it?

In general I find it easier to type (many columns have type ahead drop downs) rather than dodging between windows doing copy/pastes. That said, I use the book list metadata copy/paste a lot, usually from an existing book into a new book by the same author.

BR

I copy and paste into the book list, but typing hurts, and typing long web addresses is likely to lead to mistakes.

Originally Posted by Adoby

I shudder when you say that you add series to the title. Instead of using a plugboard when saving. Or doing unspeakable and disgusting things to the author format. Or removing existing tags. Oh, the horror!

I add series to titles, so I can find books. I don't know what a plugboard is, or how it would put all the related books together. Adding the series info is particularly useful with games, where it helps to know which supplements go with which game or which setting. A quick check shows must of these files don't come with series mtadata, so I have to add the important series info one way or another.

I put authors' names in order, because I am sick of too many things being out of order. And different authors use different naming conventions, so LN, FN is a Procrustean bed. And LN, FN, LN, FN is worse.

I want to use my own tags, to specify the topics and issues that interest me, and so I can find books using these tags.