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Originally Posted by ackomb
As for my previous post, I still find it kind of strange that when you ask it to look for a saved column, it still goes to check on the site. Perhaps this is some kind of fallback but, I'd rather be warned ahead to avoid unnecessary traffic to the sites or switch it off completely.
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'Update metadata from saved column' came after 'Update metadata from web site'. As you figured out, FFF assumes you want to update your metadata and falls back to 'from web site' if it isn't saved.
It's pretty trivial to search or virtual library on populated saved column if you don't want that. I'm not terribly interested in changing the behavior now--it's worked that way for years.
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Originally Posted by ackomb
That said, I tried testing with a few different stories that actually have saved metadata, but I keep getting the following error:
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It appears to be indicating a bad
replace_metadata line. But there's code that's supposed to detect and report that type of error when you save personal.ini. Did you override an error? I'd have to see your personal.ini (safe version) to say more.
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Originally Posted by ackomb
Kinda OT sorry, but does anyone know if there is a way to update manually edited metadata into the Title Page, without actually editing the book by hand. I've been looking around, but so far without a result. If someone has any idea, or even to give me a clue what or where to look I'd be happy to receive your feedback. I've tried Calibre's Embed Metadata, and the the plugin Modify Epub with option Metadata, but I'm not sure what they do, but not what I want them to do ;-).
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You can customize Calibre's metadata jacket, but I'm not sure to what degree. See
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/customize.html
I think there's probably an opening for a plugin that injects a customizable metadata title page or jacket, something more detailed than a cover.
I would consider calling such a plugin from FFF, but I'm not interested making it.