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Old 08-04-2020, 09:27 PM   #753
davidfor
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Originally Posted by droopy View Post
I searched for #mm_annotations (I dunno why there's the "mm_" part in my annotations field), and I see just my books with annotations.
Sorry, I can't help there as you are the person who created the column and gave it that name.
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The problem is that the "Modified" date for all books is July 31 2020, the date I synced the annotations when my Kobo was connected to Calibre, even if July 31 is not the date I made the latest annotation on books X, Y or Z.
The modified date is changed by calibre whenever you change a book or something related to it. Renaming a tag will change the modified date for all books that have the tag. If all books have the same modified timestamp, it probably means you changed a custom column. That will trigger an update for all books when calibre restarts which means the modified timestamp changes for all books at that time.

There isn't much that can be done here. The modified timestamp is associated with changes to the books. There is no way to know if that was a fetch of the annotations or some other edit. And there is no way to block the timestamp from being updated as you make changes. Anything else that could be done is complicating things for a small number of users.
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