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Old 03-28-2010, 04:01 PM   #30
Starson17
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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.
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.
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