How to mark books that I've already done "Download Metadata" on?

[droopy]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Before using download metadata, I always run the Check ISBN plugin on books first. I get more accurate results that way.

Do you mean "Extract ISBN" plugin?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by droopy

Is your Intake library a virtual library?

Intake Libraries tend to be totally separate so as to NOT contaminate the lookup values with excessive or varied data.
In fact, mine is on a different PC (the one with K4PC). I clean things up, then shut Calibre down, then use my Main PC to PULL (copy to Library) as I found that less problematic than pushing from the Intake PC
YMMV

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by droopy

Is your Intake library a virtual library?

It's a physical library. The structure is not the identical to the main library.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by droopy

Hi JS Wolf,

With some books (perhaps it's based on who the publisher is), there is some book description that shows up in the Comments field, but unfortunately they are truncated, as indicated by an ellipsis.

Some books don't have anything in the tags field. And I sometimes like to stumble onto books in my library by looking through one book's tags and finding other books that share a tag.

As I have already explained, tags can be a real mess if you go with what's in the OPF and download them. The solution for the tags is to use tags you put in. I delete any tags that get put in by the eBook and f I want any tags, I put in what works for me. I don't like the auto-populated tags. I don't download metadata because all I need to know if if the book is in a series, what the series name is and I copy/page the full description. I do download a proper hi-res cover if needed. But any metadata errors, I fix by hand so I know it's correct.