possible to auto import meta data?

[bookreader1]

Right now, you'd click the book(s), press E)dit metadata, then click the download button, and sometimes it find more than 1 possible match, you click the line you want, click OK. Then it adds the tags, the book cover, and book description.

Is there a way it can do this automatically when importing a new book, and if so, how does it choose if theres multiple matches? thank you

[theducks]

Originally Posted by bookreader1

Right now, you'd click the book(s), press E)dit metadata, then click the download button, and sometimes it find more than 1 possible match, you click the line you want, click OK. Then it adds the tags, the book cover, and book description.

Is there a way it can do this automatically when importing a new book, and if so, how does it choose if theres multiple matches? thank you

instead, from the main list (works for 1 or more selected books)

Ctrl-D
When the find gets done, you will be given choices:
I always pick review to cherry pick which field data to keep by book,
BUT you can accept/reject whatever by the Lot (sight unseen)

[Turtle91]

I highly recommend reviewing the data. I've had several occasions where the data chosen by Calibre is from an incorrect book. I don't know if it is because that data is wrong at the source, or if it is a problem identifying the book, or what. But it happens often enough that I would always review before accepting.

Cheers,

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

I highly recommend reviewing the data. I've had several occasions where the data chosen by Calibre is from an incorrect book. I don't know if it is because that data is wrong at the source, or if it is a problem identifying the book, or what. But it happens often enough that I would always review before accepting.

Cheers,

AMEN to this.

Wrong book
Wrong title

If you let it happen, you will need to open the book and figure what you have in the wrong wrappings

[bookreader1]

thank you, CTRL-D is a nice trick, that saves a click when i am in front of the machine.

and i agree that it is best to review the metadata before application.

however in this particular case, there is some automation involved which means nobody is in front of the calibre server.

i would like a first pass and i am willing to live with the results of whatever the plugins return.

the resultant book retrieval and metadata viewing will only be accessible from the content server.

if the results are completely off-base, at some point later, metadata will be cleaned up, probably in batches maybe once/week, when there is access to the actual server.