Importing Books: Ignore tags in metadata

ownedbycats · 01-21-2019, 06:16 PM

I have a very specific tagging structure, but once in a while I'll import an eBook that has about a hundred random tags embedded in its metadata, which messes it up quite a bit. Although not difficult to fix afterwards, it's an annoyance that I'd prefer not to deal with.

However, I'm not sure how to go about disabling it. I don't want to completely disable reading metadata from the file contents (some of the eBooks I download have rather obtuse filenames) and the Tag Mapper doesn't seem to work with wildcards.

I mostly use the autoadder, if that's relevant at all.

Thanks in advance.

kovidgoyal · 01-21-2019, 11:14 PM

tag mapper should work for this, use matches pattern and .+ for the pattern

BetterRed · 01-21-2019, 11:21 PM

What many of us do is to add new books into a separate library that is usually empty (mine is called Intake). Then get the metadata right - remove rubbish tags, deal with overly long subtitles, etc. I tag it with _new before moving it to the target library using Copy to library (delete after copy).

The _new tag helps me find the books I need to finalise after the move, e.g. add real tags, convert, save to device etc. I remove it from the book when that's done.

BR

ownedbycats · 02-03-2019, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

tag mapper should work for this, use matches pattern and .+ for the pattern

Thank you! (And apologies for not replying to this thread. I actually forgot I made it.)

01-21-2019, 06:16 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 8,623 Karma: 61176603 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Importing Books: Ignore tags in metadata I have a very specific tagging structure, but once in a while I'll import an eBook that has about a hundred random tags embedded in its metadata, which messes it up quite a bit. Although not difficult to fix afterwards, it's an annoyance that I'd prefer not to deal with. However, I'm not sure how to go about disabling it. I don't want to completely disable reading metadata from the file contents (some of the eBooks I download have rather obtuse filenames) and the Tag Mapper doesn't seem to work with wildcards. I mostly use the autoadder, if that's relevant at all. Thanks in advance.

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01-21-2019, 11:14 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	tag mapper should work for this, use matches pattern and .+ for the pattern

01-21-2019, 11:21 PM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,569 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	What many of us do is to add new books into a separate library that is usually empty (mine is called Intake). Then get the metadata right - remove rubbish tags, deal with overly long subtitles, etc. I tag it with _new before moving it to the target library using Copy to library (delete after copy). The _new tag helps me find the books I need to finalise after the move, e.g. add real tags, convert, save to device etc. I remove it from the book when that's done. BR