Upgrade Storage[Z7 Beta] Adding book from muse adds every single chapter as a pdf file
Hi all,
I just tried to add a book from Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/186/monograph/book/1461) to Zotero and was surprised to see that the connector started downloading every single chapter as a single attachment to the parent item. I assume that's a result of Muse not allowing to download the whole book in a single PDF but the current solution also does not seem optimal for me for the following reasons:
* downloading every single chapter takes quite a while
* in the Zotero interface the attachments are sorted alphabetically after their titles, not in the order they appear in the book
I'm not sure what the perfect solution would be (perhaps concatenating all the pdfs?) but I think for the time being it would help to add least add chapter numbers to the file (001_Cover, 002_Introduction, etc.) so that the order of the book remains correct in the interface, if that's possible in the translator.
I just tried to add a book from Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/186/monograph/book/1461) to Zotero and was surprised to see that the connector started downloading every single chapter as a single attachment to the parent item. I assume that's a result of Muse not allowing to download the whole book in a single PDF but the current solution also does not seem optimal for me for the following reasons:
* downloading every single chapter takes quite a while
* in the Zotero interface the attachments are sorted alphabetically after their titles, not in the order they appear in the book
I'm not sure what the perfect solution would be (perhaps concatenating all the pdfs?) but I think for the time being it would help to add least add chapter numbers to the file (001_Cover, 002_Introduction, etc.) so that the order of the book remains correct in the interface, if that's possible in the translator.
Then it uses the Embedded Metadata translator.
@samvimes: Good point. We don't have any way to concatenate PDFs from a translator, but I agree that you don't normally expect to have 30 PDFs attached when you save a single book. We could consider showing a Select Items dialog that lets you save one or more sections (with PDFs) or the whole book (no PDF), or keeping it as is but prepending a chapter number. I've opened an issue for further discussion.
But it still defaults to importing individual chapters. I'm using Zotero 6, so maybe the 7 beta offers the option.
(fwiw, I find it helpful that the Chrome connector automatically imports the chapters.)