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Originally Posted by MarjaE
I've tried that, but typing in the metadata for e-books and articles is painful enough, I'm not typing in the metdata for more hard-copy books unless I find some way to make it less painful.
ISBN is useful when books have ISBNs, but I still have to reformat the authors' names, strip out existing tags, and add my own tags.
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Sorry to respond after this is older, But I didn't see where someone else didn't type the description, or whatever.
Despite Calibre's wonderful ability to fetch and paste, nowadays I tend to do a lot of simple "copy & paste" mostly to avoid Google & Chrome's interuption's about proving I'm not a bot nowadays when I let Calibre look up even a single book.
I can copy or type the Title name and add the author in a few seconds to Firefox and pull up, as an example, Goodreads for a first published date (which is not always correct but close enough), Amazon for a sometime better description, and tell Google to fetch me another page of any bookcover images. The date I will type in, but if the descriptive text is okay or needs alteration I generally copy/paste it in to "Comments" or drag the text into "Comments". (total of maybe 4 opened pages side by side in the tabs.)
Calibre is wonderful and fast for my needs even when I choose to handle something manually. I rarely type unless I have to as even if I do a screen grab, I can grab an image and use a free online image-to-text and save a lot of time.