Automerge default behaviour?

BookJunkieLI · 03-26-2014, 10:48 AM

I'm trying to find out what Calibre's automerge default behaviours are. ie what metadata is saved, discarded, merged? I tried searching in the manual but none of the results I got actually had the word automerge in them, which is what I had searched.

BookJunkieLI · 03-26-2014, 04:16 PM

I ended up with some time to spare today at work and was able to play around with this. Apparently the answer to my question is Calibre ignores *all* incoming metadata in favor of what's already associated with the record. Even when there wasn't a book originally attached and the incoming copy has one. This is using the Overwrite Existing Duplicate Formats.

To me, that isn't overwriting and defeats the purpose for telling Calibre to overwrite existing duplicates. And if that's the default behaviour of Overwrite I'm not sure why it's even an option.

03-26-2014, 10:48 AM	#1
BookJunkieLI Evangelist Posts: 435 Karma: 572984 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle 4, Nook Gl4, Nook STR, REB 1100, Ebookwise 1500,	Automerge default behaviour? I'm trying to find out what Calibre's automerge default behaviours are. ie what metadata is saved, discarded, merged? I tried searching in the manual but none of the results I got actually had the word automerge in them, which is what I had searched.

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03-26-2014, 04:16 PM	#2
BookJunkieLI Evangelist Posts: 435 Karma: 572984 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle 4, Nook Gl4, Nook STR, REB 1100, Ebookwise 1500,	I ended up with some time to spare today at work and was able to play around with this. Apparently the answer to my question is Calibre ignores all incoming metadata in favor of what's already associated with the record. Even when there wasn't a book originally attached and the incoming copy has one. This is using the Overwrite Existing Duplicate Formats. To me, that isn't overwriting and defeats the purpose for telling Calibre to overwrite existing duplicates. And if that's the default behaviour of Overwrite I'm not sure why it's even an option.

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