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Originally Posted by chaley
I tested it. Changing only the case of an author or series changes it for all books. The same for all the other columns I mentioned in post #13..
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I understand why that is. Obviously I've only ever changed spellings before and not case so I didn't realise initially why 48 extra books showed as modified when I happened to edit the tag case on a book I'd just added.
Actually historically case is comparatively recent in Western Europe enabled by adoption of miniscule script invented by Irish monks and made widespread by Charles the Great of the Franks (Charlemagne). Many languages still don't really have it. I think German maybe capitalises nouns more often than English.
I'll only edit case only in a shared field if it really needs it, I think
e e cummings is the only author I know not using Title Case. If its someone with a von or similar I don't mind all the instances updating if they where Somename Von Somebody and I change it to von. Names of books imported with a middle de can be inconsistent; would case of first or last import win?
I don't mind how the tags and case insensitivity works. Some how I've managed to use Calibre for years and not notice this. I just initially couldn't understand what had happened!