Tag Import prevention -Is there a way>

[chookie2]

I am getting a lot of irrelevant tags on imports and it is taking me hours to delete/change them.Is there a way to prevent the importation of tags when importing books? Thanks.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by chookie2

I am getting a lot of irrelevant tags on imports and it is taking me hours to delete/change them.Is there a way to prevent the importation of tags when importing books? Thanks.

Not that I know of. But if you import books into an Intake library, then you could select all the books and use Bulk Metadata Edit to remove all tags from the books - viz



You would then use the Copy to library (delete after copy) feature to copy the books to the Tagret library. By default that feature is in the book list context menu.

Some users, me included, adopt this approach to get the correct values for all the metadata columns they regard as important before copying to the Target library.

I also use the Find Duplicates plugin's Find library duplicates feature to search for duplicates between the Intake and Target library before I do the copy.

BR

[fidvo]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Not that I know of. But if you import books into an Intake library, then you could select all the books and use Bulk Metadata Edit to remove all tags from the books - viz

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You would then use the Copy to library (delete after copy) feature to copy the books to the Tagret library. By default that feature is in the book list context menu.

Some users, me included, adopt this approach to get the correct values for all the metadata columns they regard as important before copying to the Target library.

I also use the Find Duplicates plugin's Find library duplicates feature to search for duplicates between the Intake and Target library before I do the copy.

BR

I use a different method to achieve essentially the same result. An intake library would be a pain in my case, because I have several different libraries with several different sets of custom columns, so I would need a different intake library for each main library.

What I did was create a custom Yes/No field in each library, then set up a virtual library to list all books where the value of that column is not Yes. When I add a book, that column defaults to blank, so it automatically shows up in my To Fix virtual library. Once I clean up the metadata, I mark that column as Yes to remove it from To Fix.

[DaltonST]

Originally Posted by chookie2

I am getting a lot of irrelevant tags on imports and it is taking me hours to delete/change them.Is there a way to prevent the importation of tags when importing books

Yes. Standard Calibre functionality, although taken to an extreme. See the attached. You must create one or more Add Books Tag rules that match "all" Tags, and then Calibre will automatically remove what matches. Or, you could use the functionality to actually standardize the good Tags that you wish to keep.



DaltonST

[uli]

Similar to DaltonST, I just use remove the tag, if it matches pattern : .

[chookie2]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...66#post3526766

To all who replied I will try this and see what eventuates. Thanks again

[dwig]

BetterRed's approach, having a separate library to act as Purgatory, works well and is great when dealing with large batches of new books needing work. I only "batch" add 1-3 books on any one weekend and take a "lighter weight" approach.

I've set calibre, in Prefs>Add Books, to add an additional tage "new addition" when adding books. This allows be to easily fine new additions even after I've done something that causes calibre to refresh the library list (e.g. quit and restart later, ...). I remove the "new addition" tag when I've finished massaging the new book.