[dailyalice]

In the guide to FanFicFare I'm working on, I tell people to make the Saved Metadata custom column a long text column (of course), but I've been suggesting they interpret the column as HTML, with a caution to not ever edit the data in that field (including instruction on how to remove it from Edit Metadata so they don't edit it by accident and/or aren't tempted to edit it).

Is there any reason it would be better to have folks make it a text column instead of HTML? I think HTML looks nicer and figure it's fine if you don't edit Saved Metadata, but wanted to be sure to get this right (as I feel the Saved Metadata column is literally the most important custom column you set up when first setting up calibre with FanFicFare). I think I saw something in the documentation that now suggested text is better (I thought I read HTML was better at some point, but I could be misremembering).

While I'm on the topic of Saved Metadata, I wanted to confirm that it can't be used for anthologies. I've been doing a lot of updates of works in my guide/test library from Saved Metadata as I document things and it definitely seems like Saved Metadata can't be used for anthologies (and that totally makes sense given how anthologies are created), but I wanted to be sure.