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Findingaway · 02-03-2025, 10:24 AM

Thanks so much for your answer, TheDucks.

I was not aware of the Quality Check plugin.

I am mostly going to be dealing with metadata cleanup to begin with, so I'll begin working with that.

Do you know of any good pre-existing tag schemes? I've been making one up ad hoc on my own while building this library, using things like history, mystery, etc. I'm thinking I'd like to have a few basic groupings like broad subject, (example: history), time when relevant (example: 17th century), place (example: France) and maybe a few others (example: cozy,hard-boiled). I have already looked for tag schemes and haven't found any to use or adapt. I'm guessing a workable number would be 200-300.

I already use Merge quite a bit and it is really helpful.

If I backup the relevant metadata.db, does that suffice for safety while learning bulk metadata editing operations?

Thanks again.

02-03-2025, 10:24 AM	#3
Findingaway Enthusiast Posts: 31 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2023 Device: Kobo Elipsa 2e, Galaxy Tab A	Thanks so much for your answer, TheDucks. I was not aware of the Quality Check plugin. I am mostly going to be dealing with metadata cleanup to begin with, so I'll begin working with that. Do you know of any good pre-existing tag schemes? I've been making one up ad hoc on my own while building this library, using things like history, mystery, etc. I'm thinking I'd like to have a few basic groupings like broad subject, (example: history), time when relevant (example: 17th century), place (example: France) and maybe a few others (example: cozy,hard-boiled). I have already looked for tag schemes and haven't found any to use or adapt. I'm guessing a workable number would be 200-300. I already use Merge quite a bit and it is really helpful. If I backup the relevant metadata.db, does that suffice for safety while learning bulk metadata editing operations? Thanks again.