Thread: Evolution request: accept/reject updated metadata
View Single Post
Old 01-24-2020, 05:04 AM   #13
davidfor
Grand Sorcerer
davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.davidfor ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 24,905
Karma: 47303824
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos
Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick Derwael View Post
Actually, I have inherited of a massive library (>20K ebooks) which I have imported in Calibre and I'm now in the (lenghty) process of cleaning them up

I have no idea about the original metadata source
In the existing metadata, the description is very often better (than in what I find in download), but the author is structured as "last_name, first_name"

This means that if, after a single book metadata download, I don't want to keep the information just downloaded and revert back to the original metadata, the "last_name, first_name" is back and if I do not notice it...
That's a completely different situation. You are starting with bad data and just want to fix that and not necessarily the rest. @mbovenka suggestion of using Quality Check plugin to fix this is probably the best for a bulk fix. You could also edit the name in the Manage Authors tool. That would fix the author one at a time but update all books by that author. This is also useful if you are there are various spellings of a name to fix. You could also use the metadata download. If you trust one of the sources to get the author correct, configure it to get just the author and run it in bulk for a set of books and fix the author. And do the rest of the metadata later.
davidfor is offline   Reply With Quote