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Originally Posted by Starson17
It might be nice to have some code to shuffle metadata and formats around, but that's not really what I'm trying to write.
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It's interesting, but I've actually ended up using what I did write to do exactly this - shuffle metadata. It's proved useful a few times already.
In one case, I had added a book that had title only, but it was similar to some books I was working on that had lots of metadata, and the same author. Since all books by this author were pdf's, I just safe merged an old book into the new one. The new pdf format wasn't overwritten and all the other metada was copied into the new record.
In another case, I was experimenting with HTML to EPUB conversion and wanted to change the metadata put into the EPUB but not change my good record. I created an empty record and safe merged books and data into it. Then I was free to experiment in the copy.
I wanted normal merge to merge up duplicate records that I'd inadvertently created during initial book entry. However, now that those are mostly cleaned up, I've found I use normal merge less, but I still use safe merge to do things unrelated to true record merger and more related to record and metadata copying and shuffling.