Request: Be able to make a list of books you have

[CarpeDiem71]

Hi Everyone:

I was wondering if anyone would like to be able to say print off a list of all the books you have on Calibre? I know that other programs such as Book Collector, and Extreme Books Manager have this feature as a spreadsheet or just a list to be able to add it to say GoodReads, or other programs. Even to have a hardcopy of the lists to say in case you loose everything.

[Manichean]

Moderator Notice
Moved to appropriate subforum.

Did you check the catalog feature? Goodreads synchronization is available via plugin.

[CarpeDiem71]

Thanks so much ! I appreciate it

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by CarpeDiem71

I was wondering if anyone would like to be able to say print off a list of all the books you have on Calibre? I know that other programs such as Book Collector, and Extreme Books Manager have this feature as a spreadsheet or just a list to be able to add it to say GoodReads, or other programs. Even to have a hardcopy of the lists to say in case you loose everything.

Read the Creating Catalogs: Start here sticky post.

You can use the Create Catalog feature to export your book list as a CSV file to be printed via a spreadsheet or to be imported to Goodreads (the preferred method for a large group of books) instead of using the Goodreads plugin.

From the Goodreads Plugin help file.

Important Note About Bulk Operations

Goodreads have Terms & Conditions associated with their API that this plugin is dependent upon. The T&C place a very strict limit on the throughput of calls being made. The more successful this plugin is and the more users that perform actions like adding to shelves etc, the greater the risk of the plugin being banned.

If you ignore this warning the plugin will stop working for everyone (including you) and there is no workaround.

To discourage users from bulk operations using the plugin there is a limit of 50 selected rows for the actions of add to shelves/remove from shelves. If you have more books you wish to add in bulk to the Goodreads website, export them from Calibre as a CSV catalog and upload to the Goodreads website. For more details see http://www.goodreads.com/review/import

Note also that adding many hundreds of books to a shelf and either syncing or add/removing to it from Calibre using this plugin will be slow and also potentially cause issues. Every time you do an action with your shelf the entire contents of that shelf are read (200 books at a time). I cannot think of a genuine reason for having an enormous amount of books on a Goodreads shelf (apart from your “read” shelf which will grow over time). So do not for instance be tempted to put your entire collection of thousands of books on your to-read shelf from this plugin! Apart from running very slowly for you, the risk of all users being disabled becomes far higher.

If you do have genuine reasons for wanting a lot of books on your shelf and adding to it from Calibre regularly, please post on the plugin thread and state what they are. I may need to make further changes to the plugin design to attempt to handle this scenario.