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Adding books and the title/author
In Calibre, in the preferences for Adding Books, I have checkmarked Read metadata from file contents rather than file name. This works well for most formats except for pdf where I can often get a lot of rubbish added to the book title. Is there a way to set something up in Calibre that will allow all other formats to be read from the metadata but have pdfs read from file name?
Another question and I doubt this can be fixed but you never know, so I'll ask anyway. Occasionally the author's name is placed where the title of the book is and the book title is where the author's name should be. While this is easy to fix it's often difficult to find when a large number of books are added to the library. Is there any way to prevent that from happening or is it because I have checked the Read metadata from file contents, or perhaps something that just happens. |
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@knitkitty33 - I 'get around' the problem by adding PDF's separately - after changing the Add Books setting to get title and author from the file name.
I also Add books into a Review library where I 'tidy up' Title, Author, metadata etc, and resolve any inter-library duplicates, before moving them out of Review into my Main library. I find this makes life a lot easier. BR |
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Good advice, I use the Quick Preferences plugin to quickly change the add books Regular expression or the get metadata from filename or content options to suit the books I'm about to add..
Last edited by DoctorOhh; 03-10-2013 at 12:49 AM. |
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Thanks. I had thought I would have to change the add books setting for adding pdfs but thought I would ask anyway in case I had missed something.
DoctorOhh, thanks for the tip about the Quick Preferences plugin that could be handy, I'll check that one out. |
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