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Originally Posted by Kristo
I too have a large amount of ebooks in my collection. My intention with calibre was to manage the entire thing. I didn't mind the file system it used, nor did I mind the prospect of having tags for all. The problem I do share with you is the time involved in adding all these books to calibre.
I have added large amounts at once but this has proven to be too much for calibre and/or my system. I have added smaller amounts at the same time but the percent of properly tagged books wasn't much to write home about--It seems to really like to classify my books as audio books for some reason and ascribe ridiculously large titles to it. Thus, wrong and faulty tags aplenty, becomes only slightly less time consuming than searching amazon myself for the metadata pertaining to each book. This is why I have scaled back my aspirations of the expansive impeccable library and now only add the authors I am reading throughout the week.
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Yes, entering large numbers of books can be tedious, and properly tagging them incredibly time consuming. To help with that, I've written several minor improvements that are now in Calibre or being reviewed. The first was a lock on the title/author so that you can get metadata automatically, but not change the title/author. Yes, it was getting audio books for me too, which I didn't mind too much, but I did miind when it added the name of the reader for the audio book to the title and changed the title. The lock stops that. (It's in the main Preferences screen (don't overwrite author/title by default).
Second, I've written code that automatically sorts all books you add into existing books as new formats by matching author and fuzzy matching title. This speeded up entry for me by a factor of 10. I had spent 2 months entering my first half of the library and only 2 days entering the last half. It was particularly annoying when I added 3 formats of the same book, and it made 3 records, not one. I hope this module will soon be added to the main branch. It's still under review. Finally, I'm working on a "merge records" module, so you can merge two books into a single record when the author name differs slightly. Yes, entry can be a pain, but people are working on improving it.