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  • That's ok, I understand that neither method will be perfect—so I'll just have to opt for the one that produces the best result without requiring too much post-import editing. At the moment that looks like the XML method, since I only need to edit ou…
  • Some further updates: 1. With the **XML method**: Seems to treat book chapters in edited books as edited books by omitting the book title (1a). Also, when dealing with an edited book by itself, converts editors to authors (1b). See examples below: …
  • Thanks! That hadn't occurred to me, but I'll do that. The only other issue with importing via XML is that it looks like apostrophes have been replaced with & apos;, so instead of "O'Reilly Media", the output is given as "O& apos;Reilly Media…
  • Just wanted to leave a quick update, in case anyone is following a similar path in transitioning from Papers3 to Zotero... 1. Exporting to an RIS file works, but it's less than ideal because some information seems to go missing while irrelevant/inc…
  • Thank-you. I'll give it a try. Here's hoping that it works! (With regard to collections, I can probably just give all the items in the collection the same tag and later create the collections in Zotero based on the tag, assuming the import is succ…
  • Thanks. Will this allow me to import all the tags from Papers as well?—the existing tags I have are critical to my workflow.