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Originally Posted by theducks
All books are currently displayed unless you STATE you are using a restricted view  (you did not, so I assumed you want the pat for ALL of the library  )
How good is your SQL ?
'Path' is stored in the Books table
calibredb List --fields=All gets you an output listing file that include the book ID. You can ad a --search to the command to limit the returned items |
I like your thinking
theducks - my SQL ain't too bad. It pains me to use it, in my soul I'm a Bachmanite, never really embraced the Coddswallop stuff.
OK, my #status column is table custom_column_13 and in there my
72 finalCheck row is id 17. There's another table called books_custom_column_13_link table, a select on value=17 in that table yields the set of books marked
72 finalCheck, a join of the book table on book_id gives me the paths.
It works in the sqlite_database_browser, I'll just need to incorporate it into my powershell script.
But since you posted and I experimented with the sqllite_browser
davidfor has come up with what appears to be a better idea, using the Open With plugin.
JimmXinu - I'll keep your idea in reserve, looks simple enough - but it does mean 'learning' python and setting up another dev environment :yawn/yacc:
davidfor - this is the most appealing idea, I sort of forget that plug-ins work on multiple books - all my books have a cover of some sort so I'll push them into the powerscript then it can get hold of the sibling opf, pdf and rtf files.
It also has the advantage that I can use it on a single book - I often make author naming errors because of unfamiliar names, alphabets, languages etc - which I only discover months later.
I'll patch it together 2mora
And what you describe is exactly what I want do - extract the title, author(s), tags etc out of the opf and inject them straight into the XMP encoded metadata in the library copy of the PDF and RTF files. I want the metadata to be available to the relevant IFilters.
Thanks guys - fantastic ideas.
BR