Who else uses the add empty book feature?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

My completely uneducated guess is that there are multiple ISBN's for the title and what gets given back to Calibre then resolves through to a different series or something?

My uneducated guess matches yours

[Hence why I and others await the day of the much-longed for feature controlling metadata download that allows us to be sure our carefully constructed series data does not get trashed should we choose to populate it first.]

I'd like this, too. I need more Qt skills (and time) to get there. I wrote the "Don't overwrite author/title" option, which is a crude form of metadata fetch control, and I'm reasonably comfortable with the metadata handling from writing the Merge code.

Charles has written some Qt code that I may be able to copy, but I keep thinking if I try it, I'll be just finishing some crude initial code when Charles or Kovid posts polished final code. I've kind of been just watching/waiting thinking I'll steal their work on fine control for metadata fetching and use it for fine control on metadata Merging

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

So as an avid empty book user, would it be useful or a hindrance to you to have the author auto-populated from the current selected row for all the empty books you add?

I'd find this very annoying, if not easily tweaked or optioned to turn off. I use the empty book option for testing and rely on it having an Unknown author that is overwritten during a safe-merge (merge and keep others) to make a copy of the record I want to do tests on.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Sometimes I just put (Omnibus) after the title name and give it a series number at the end of the series (in this case 4)

I tag it "MultiBook," put it at series_index 00, Enter the book titles in the Comments (for searching) and sometimes also add (Omnibus) after I've done a metadata fetch.