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In search of a tutorial/guide/video on how to standardize Metadata in a collection.
I have many eBooks (ePub) files that I've imported into Calibre. The organization of metadata is not consistent, likely because I've purchased eBooks from different sources and over the past 10 years. There are quite a lot of books, and manually curating the Metadata would take days and likely lead to error. I figured I'd check here to see if there is a way to automate Metadata changes? For instance if the the ISBN is provided in the ID field, can it pull Book information from a database?
I would like to standardize the Metadata of my collection, ideally in a way works well with Kindle Paperwhite, which is the eReader I use. Importantly, after standardizing the Metadata, I would like to export each eBook as an ePub file so that the changes are incorporated into the ePub.
A few obvious errors that I frequently see:
1) Author: First/Last name incorrectly ordered, issues in author order when multiple authors.
2) Titles: Inconsistent sorting. Sometimes articles (A, The, etc) are skipped, other times not
3) Titles: Series name present/absent. Book number in series present/absent.
3) Series: Sometimes series information is missing or inconsistent.
TYIA!
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