[Penny_Dreadful]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've had issues with some other librarians not putting in the proper fix that I've reported. Mind if I PM you to do the fixes as needed?

If you post it in the Librarians Group, then PM me a link, I'll try and sort it out

Originally Posted by droopy

I'm confused though; you mentioned "column", but then it's a hidden column. If it's hidden, how will you know which books need "download metadata" done on them?

I've attached a screenshot of my calibre window, across the top you can see the visible columns "Series" "Title" "Author" "Tags" etc. but I also have other columns that you can see in the Tag Browser on the left, "Quality Check" is the one closest to what you want, it's a column of type "Comma separated text, like Tags, Shown in Tag Browser." The "Clean" tag is the one I use to mean that I have done all my fixes to that book. "New" are the books that need to be moved to my Kindle the next time I connect it.

Even though these columns aren't visible across the top you can still search against them 'not #qcheck:"=Clean"' will get all the books that need metadata downloaded for them. Or because it's listed in the tag browser you can just click "Clean" tag twice and it'll do that search for you.

You can also see how I use colour to show different things in the list, grey is read, black unread, magenta books need to be converted to a Kindle format.

Originally Posted by droopy

Is Goodreads better than amazon? What makes it better than the other options?

I find the data coming from GoodReads is cleaner than coming straight from Amazon. I have to do less organising after downloading metadata from GR, the best bit for me is that the GR source plug-in can be edited so the tags it grabs match your preferences.