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Originally Posted by pdurrant
You can, of course, do all that yourself for the books in your own calibre library.
But there's no incentive for the publishers to include all that info in an ebook's metadata. It won't increase sales, and it costs money to add the data and check it's correct.
Now if someone could come up with way of fingerprinting ebooks, so that the contents could be uniquely identified, as can be done with, for example, CDs, perhaps someone could come up with an equivalent of CDDB or MusicBrainz - a crowd-source repository of accurate metadata.
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That would be solving one part of the problem. There other is ereader support. Just yesterday I finished reading a book and decided which of Michael Chabon's novels I should read next. I have a few of them, and thought (they're not a series) I'll start with the one that was published earliest. That took way to many clicks to figure out on my device.
In the end, I settled on Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.