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Originally Posted by davidfor
From my experience, from a legitimate store. Most of the books I have gotten from Kobo and Amazon have little metadata, or it is terrible. And as the OP mentioned comics, I have bought a couple of comic bundles for members of my family, and the file names were pretty useless. I fixed the file names to have the title before adding them to calibre.
@wisbit: As @theducks said, the GetFileName Plugin can put the full path of the file into custom columns and then you can the search-and-replace to set the correct details. But, I would probably use a file renamer, or script, to change the file names to include the appropriate details and then add the renamed file to calibre. @jhowell pointed to the way to get the metadata from the file names. It cannot use the directory name, hence the rename is needed.
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Cheers that's what I ended up doing, I made a little script to rename files so that it would follow the "add books" read metadata from filename guidelines.
It kinda worked, more or less.
Now the idea was that once it's done, I would be able to download more easily metadata and covers online. but so far it doesn't work.
I get a feeling that the metadata and cover finder only searches for the name of the book ...
My comics have no author, because honestly, nobody cares much, it's mainly series name and album names. I made another thread on this
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=335630
we'll see.