I could not imagine having to start from scratch now

[Rellwood]

Originally Posted by theducks

The Quality check plugin is probably my most used as it finds all most of the variations in Authors and series quickly.

I guess that if you just use calibre to convert and transfer or fetch news, 4 different spellings of an Authors name won't bother you as you probably don't group things.

I have that fixed by using the Author Mapper...

[Rellwood]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I do have a column that indicates the book is on a device. Not a separate column/icon/whatever for all my devices.

Pretty much the same. I am interested in if a book has been read but not that interested in if I have read it once or 20 times—I may be close to or over than number of reads for Three Men in a Boat since I re-read it at least once per year.

For me, the finished column is autogenerated from the Kobo read percentage column. It's a one and done.

I have the re-reads in dates so I know that I am at my "year" between re-reads. I have about 50 books that get a yearly re-read and I try to space it out a year because that's about the length of time it takes to refresh it in my mind.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

Ive found that the Goodreads plugin is useful for forcing metadata if you can't get it any other way. Linking to Goodreads gets the id. Whether or not you use Goodreads.

I've tried to fetch metadata from Goodreads on a few occasions. I was not happy with the fetched metadata any of the times. Trivia such as series names/indexes, layout of the fetched description, etc. were incorrect, totally munged, etc. As for the Goodreads ID, I'm assuming you mean their Work ID. Which is rather useless other than for Goodreads.

[Dal Bhat]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

Ive found that the Goodreads plugin is useful for forcing metadata if you can't get it any other way.

What does that mean? What does forcing metadata do in the book that will then be sent to Kindle?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Rellwood

Ive found that the Goodreads plugin is useful for forcing metadata if you can't get it any other way. Linking to Goodreads gets the id. Whether or not you use Goodreads.

I fill all the metadata in manually, no downloads. I'm never satisfied with downloaded metadata and correcting it would take me more time than just copy/pasting it in the first place.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Dal Bhat

What does that mean? What does forcing metadata do in the book that will then be sent to Kindle?

Nothing except for the title and author, unless you have a plugboard set up (for example, adding the series information to the title). Many people want their books to have detailed and elaborate metadata in calibre, whether or not their ereader can display it. Others don't much care.

[theducks]

I use the ctrl-D download. If I like the right side (existing) I click the arrow. I also edit the retrieved comments to remove fluff (I just want a synopsis)
I do wish it would allow custom columns on the left side, allowing me to move or enter stuff without launching the MDE afterwards .