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lairdb · 01-21-2021, 11:34 AM

Is there a way to run the plugin so as to ONLY add the Goodreads ID? I see that I can deselect some of the metadata fields:

...but I can't deselect title, author, etc.

("Why do you want that? That's weird."
"Because I have lots of books with good clean metadata and no Goodreads ID, and I want to improve my Goodreads Sync. Particularly, the Goodreads practices around titles are not my preference*.")

((*Series in the title field is a terrible hack and often mangled, and I also prefer not to have the extended title in Calibre. (E.g. for goodreads:45358322, I'd rather have "Sizing People Up", not "Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction".)))

01-21-2021, 11:34 AM	#550
lairdb dog ear Posts: 53 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: lots	Is there a way to run the plugin so as to ONLY add the Goodreads ID? I see that I can deselect some of the metadata fields: ...but I can't deselect title, author, etc. ("Why do you want that? That's weird." "Because I have lots of books with good clean metadata and no Goodreads ID, and I want to improve my Goodreads Sync. Particularly, the Goodreads practices around titles are not my preference.") ((Series in the title field is a terrible hack and often mangled, and I also prefer not to have the extended title in Calibre. (E.g. for goodreads:45358322, I'd rather have "Sizing People Up", not "Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction".)))