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Old 01-28-2023, 06:38 PM   #671
Rellwood
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Originally Posted by kiwidude View Post
I thought that is just down to the limitations of how calibre matches books - and unless the titles match exactly you are SOL. Or are they saying that setting the title/author to null means that calibre will "automatically" merge the results it finds? Even if you could that sounds way too dangerous/misleading for all the times that the goodreads search finds the wrong book and you wouldn't know it because calibre would present the results of the Amazon title/author...
It's only dangerous if you don't already know what book you are updating the metadata for. Honestly, that isn't going to be the case. Everyone knows what the title/author of a book is before they update the metadata and if they don't they can at least find some kind of identifier within it to help the plugin. The concern I am having is the fact that Amazon and Goodreads are the main sources for me and their metadata is in conflict with each other and how I like my library.

Also, Calibre will use title/author/isbn(if available) no matter what fields you choose to fill in. Even if you deselect every available field they will still come back with a book and the id's. The id field will get changed.
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