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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
If you downloaded to epub, you can do Update EPUB Always. FFF will still go to the site to collect the metadata, but will reuse the existing chapters.
If you downloaded to a different format, Overwrite Always is the only option to update title page. I recommend downloading to epub and converting as needed for all users.
If you aren't already, you should also look at creating and using a custom column for storing FanFicFare Metadata. It won't help with updating the title page inside the epub, but it will let you update Calibre metadata without more network traffic later.
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Ah thank you! I feel silly that I didn't realize that, that's incredibly helpful!
And yes, I actually did a bunch of work a few months ago to make a bunch of custom columns to break out the metadata because I had so many things in my default tags from just using the FFF default settings that it was crashing my tag browser in MoonReader, it's been a huge quality of life improvement and also led me to some other tweaks that have been pretty great too.
I'm currently trying to figure out how to use the replace metadata function to standardize the relationship tags a little more, and I've sort of got it but it's not perfect yet and I'm not sure if my ideal outcome is going to be possible, so I'm trying to figure out what kind of compromise outcome I want that is possible - I want any OC characters shipped with named characters to end up second in the ship name, but to keep the alphabetization of ship orders for everything else, and I'm pretty sure I can't write something that will do that, so I'm trying to figure out if it's worth even trying to standardize the various ways OCs are tagged.
I also want to do something that will take the Ao3 fandom names in their custom column and put the standardization in my regular fandoms column. I read a lot of Star Wars and DC stuff and the fandom tags for that on Ao3 cover a lot of different individual books/comics/movies under the same overall fandom, so I have a separate custom column where I just label the overall fandom manually, but if I could set something up to automatically insert the overall fandom into that column using the information from the Ao3 fandom column that would be great but I have been running up against a wall trying to figure that out.