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Old 02-23-2020, 03:11 PM   #11
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This is similar to a feature I’ve been wanting for a while: the ability to set the values of custom fields upon adding a book to the library. For instance, I have a Y/N column that tells me whether I’ve downloaded a book’s metadata or not, and another column that I use to keep track of books which are new or have been changed in some way since I last backed up my library. It’d be nice to be able to tell calibre to automatically set both of those columns to the proper values for incoming books.

For that matter, when creating a new custom column, it’d be really swell if I could define its starting value for existing books, rather than have it always default to empty/undefined.

We can already tell calibre to autoconvert books from one format to another, or to set specific tags, during the import process. This would seem to be a natural extension of that module.
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