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droopy · 08-07-2020, 10:08 PM

I like having a book's metadata:

series
all people involved in book (author, translator, editor) in the author field/column
title
Book description in the Comments field.

I'm not so much a stickler about:
"Publisher", in part because publishing houses merge.
Publishing date (month + year)
Tags (though they help me later, when I'm in a mood for a particular interest (read "tag")

In the past, when I have books that are imported into my Calibre library, I'd select a bunch of them and do "Download Metadata". But now, I do a preliminary step: I find the ISBNs from within the book itself with the Extract ISBN plugin. With this initial step, it seems that the "Download Metadata" runs faster.

Questions:
1. Do you have the same experience?
2. Any other tips on how I can speed up my processing of books?

08-07-2020, 10:08 PM	#1
droopy Guru Posts: 834 Karma: 2912460 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: Kobo Forma	Recently learned to run "Extract ISBN" before "Download Metadata". Do U do that too? I like having a book's metadata: series all people involved in book (author, translator, editor) in the author field/column title Book description in the Comments field. I'm not so much a stickler about: "Publisher", in part because publishing houses merge. Publishing date (month + year) Tags (though they help me later, when I'm in a mood for a particular interest (read "tag") In the past, when I have books that are imported into my Calibre library, I'd select a bunch of them and do "Download Metadata". But now, I do a preliminary step: I find the ISBNs from within the book itself with the Extract ISBN plugin. With this initial step, it seems that the "Download Metadata" runs faster. Questions: 1. Do you have the same experience? 2. Any other tips on how I can speed up my processing of books?