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Old 02-24-2011, 08:53 AM   #2
Starson17
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Originally Posted by sam_uk View Post
I have got a 'mess' of ebook files on my hardrive, different formats, some compressed, some in a folder directory structure, some by author, some by title.
I had that mess when I started with Calibre.
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I was hoping someone might have a script that
Not a script, but I did write some functions into Calibre that will help.
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1) Recursively extracts all tarred files [ find ./ -name '*.rar' -exec unrar e -o+ {} \; ]
Calibre reads *.rar and *.zip files and extracts embedded ebooks.
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2) Organises those files into a single flat directory [ find . -type f -exec mv '{}' . \; ]
Why? Calibre doesn't care where they are.
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3) Removes duplicates [ yes 1 | fdupes -rd . ]
Turn on the Automerge function. Duplicate authors with near duplicate (fuzzy matched) titles are ignored if it's the same format.
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4) Copies all epub files to a new folder called 'calibre' or similar
Why?
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5) Coverts all the remaining .pdf .txt etc files to .epub and moves them to 'calibre' folder
Global; conversions usually suck, but you can do it easily enough inside Calibre after import.

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6) Sorts resulting folder alphabetically
Sort however you like in Calibre, after import.
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7) Goes and grabs the cover art from the internet
Calibre will do it globally.

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8) Makes me a cup of tea whilst it completes!
Nope - sorry

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