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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
It should be quick and easy to knock off (famous last words), [...].
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Yes, yes. Should only be a few simple lines.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
[...] but... metadata is overrated. It's only ever important to the people it's important to. Which is relatively few in my experience. Being able to "quickly" grok/change epub metadata is not something I would personally prioritize.
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I would argue editing metadata is one of the most important and common steps made. Definitely done (at least) once per book.
Creating a book from scratch:
- Open book
- Add Author/Title/Language
- Do all further edits.
Opening/Editing a book from elsewhere:
- Open book
- Adjust Author/Title
- Do all further edits.
(We all have ran across those dastardly books in a series that weren't named consistently!)
Also, when opening up EPUBs fresh from other tools:
- Google Docs
- Finereader
- Word
- Project Gutenberg
- Archive.org
- [...]
quickly understanding/parsing their metadata mess is a must.
This is especially important when you're trying to debug/correct.
Like in 2019, when I figured out "French" was accidentally the language in
The Expanse book:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...06#post3888106
Proper lang is even more important now with multi-language spellchecking. (Red squigglies going berserk or wouldn't appear. Or Spellcheck List going awry [that's how I indirectly spotted bad lang metadata/markup in Calibre for all those years].)
And IF we're talking about super advanced users... who cares the most about metadata? All the advanced users Sigil is
so clearly designed for.
So move that to the tippy top of your priority list!!!
