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highwaykind · 09-17-2009, 07:49 AM

I deleted a bunch of books in my Ebooks library (formats I wasn't interested in, broken zip files etc), but they still show up in the Calibre database.

In stead of organizing the 2000 or so books by size trying to figure out which are 'linking' to an empty folder or a file that doesn't exist, I am pretty sure all the books have their 'formats' set to 'none'

(I haven't really organized them all yet, and on some imports the author/title got switched, and some metadata apparently wasn't there at all, so I can't sort on X to find duplicates)

Is there a way to get the format displayed so I can delete those now invalid entries quickly?

If I click on Preferences - Interface ' Formats' is not selectable in " Select visible columns in library view" .

(I'm somewhat new to Calibre, waiting on my Kindle to arrive to really start using it - before it was 'just' a handy tool to organize my ebooks)

09-17-2009, 07:49 AM	#1
highwaykind Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle Touch	Is it possible to view the Format of a book in Library view? I deleted a bunch of books in my Ebooks library (formats I wasn't interested in, broken zip files etc), but they still show up in the Calibre database. In stead of organizing the 2000 or so books by size trying to figure out which are 'linking' to an empty folder or a file that doesn't exist, I am pretty sure all the books have their 'formats' set to 'none' (I haven't really organized them all yet, and on some imports the author/title got switched, and some metadata apparently wasn't there at all, so I can't sort on X to find duplicates) Is there a way to get the format displayed so I can delete those now invalid entries quickly? If I click on Preferences - Interface ' Formats' is not selectable in " Select visible columns in library view" . (I'm somewhat new to Calibre, waiting on my Kindle to arrive to really start using it - before it was 'just' a handy tool to organize my ebooks)