From 42879405c87bd036af5e2458e31a2b6dcc4cb5d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:08:15 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ... --- src/calibre/manual/metadata.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/calibre/manual/metadata.rst b/src/calibre/manual/metadata.rst index 9c01f461ef..0bddcc546a 100644 --- a/src/calibre/manual/metadata.rst +++ b/src/calibre/manual/metadata.rst @@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ In addition, there is a button to automatically trim borders from the cover, in Editing the metadata of many books at a time --------------------------------------------- -First select the books you want to edit by holding Ctrl or Shift and clicking on them. If you select more than one book, clicking the :guilabel:`Edit metadata` button will cause a new *Bulk* metadata edit dialog to open. Using this dialog, you can quickly set the author/publisher/rating/tags/series etc of a bunch of books to the same value. This is particularly useful if you have just imported a number of books that have some metadata in common. You can also click the arrow next to the :guilabel:`Edit metadata` button and select :guilabel:`Edit metadata individually` to use the powerful single book edit dialog from above for all the selected books in succession. +First select the books you want to edit by holding Ctrl or Shift and clicking on them. If you select more than one book, clicking the :guilabel:`Edit metadata` button will cause a new *Bulk* metadata edit dialog to open. Using this dialog, you can quickly set the author/publisher/rating/tags/series etc of a bunch of books to the same value. This is particularly useful if you have just imported a number of books that have some metadata in common. This dialog is very powerful, for example, it has a Search and Replace tab that you can use to perform bulk operations on metadata and even copy metadata from one column to another. + +The normal edit metadata dialog also has Next and Previous buttons that you can use to edit the metadata of several books one after the other. Search and replace ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^