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Originally Posted by Rellwood
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.
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The problem is the website search engines, if you *don’t* help them out before your metadata download by setting goodreads ids etc. Which I am willing to bet is how the majority of the plugin users work with their books - they rely on a title/author search match to pull back the right metadata. Which can sometimes go wrong due to for instance that specific book not yet being on the goodreads website and it presents it’s nearest match instead.
It is why I always recommend never using the calibre bulk metadata download option. There are certain times with calibre where you have to eyeball the data you are accepting if there is the possibility it is wrong. The situation I was talking about was if by setting title/author to none prior to where it merges the results of the search and letting it show you as one line item (if it worked that way) - it would create a lot of garbage entries over time for people who don’t prepare the correct goodreads id first.