Some questions for new users

[kiwidude]

@BeccaPrice - bring up the Edit Metadata dialog for a book and you will see the IDs (identifiers) field. A book can have zero, one or multiple identifiers. It contains things like the ISBN, ASIN and/or other identifiers from various plugins to help associate that particular book with some external id, most often to be used with a website lookup.

The identifiers get used a lot by various plugins such as metadata downloads (they will use the ISBN or website specific identifier as the first choice to find a matching book, and fallback to doing a "less reliable" title/author match if it doesn't have that). They also enable the hyperlinks in the book details panel to jump straight to the related web page for a book.

[Joanna]

Originally Posted by BeccaPrice

(what's the difference between a tag and an identifier? that last isn't a term I'm familiar with.)

An identifier is a sequence of numbers and/or letters that allows to identify a given book (e.g. ISBN number, Amazon, Goodreads or Google ID etc.

Don't be so afraid of recipes (not in your help file of course but in your use). It just seems complicated and the word 'recipe" is a bit confusing, too, but it's actually very simple. Just click on "Fetch news" and choose one source you would like to suscribe to - you will understand how that works in no time!

// EDIT I've just seen Kiwidude's post. Well, I hope I've helped you at least a little bit.

[unboggling]

Originally Posted by BeccaPrice

If you mean the tips and tricks blog, that's more of a blog than a help file - but it is a goldmine of good information, and I intend to link to it as a resource.

Yeah, I meant the tips and tricks blog. And I'd appreciate seeing your work when you're done.