08-08-2009, 11:00 AM | #1 |
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[Old Thread] Can you print out your Calibre catalog?
First, sorry if this question has been posed before, sometimes it is hard to search for questions already asked. Hopefully someone can provide me an answer: can you print a list of your Calibre catalog?
Is there some command that prints all of my books out? Thanks in advance for answers! |
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The command line calibredb.exe will do that.
Type: calibredb.exe list --help in an MS-DOS/terminal/shell window to get a list of options. |
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08-08-2009, 12:05 PM | #3 |
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Thanks!
Where do I type this?
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Sorry, I didn't see command prompt. Did that and there is no command for printing.
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You mean send to printer? You can do:
calibredb list>>filename.txt It will output the list into a text file which you can then print from Notepad or Word. It's also possible to import the text file into Excel. |
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If you want a really useful list that you can sort, etc. you open your text file with Excel and parse the information into columns. I use this format to add information on paper books that I have read since Calibre only catalogs ebooks.
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Hi all,
is there a way to choose the column width? For most of the entries, the authors field seems to need a second row because of a long name or a second author. Even when I import the file into Excel, it would be hard to "repair" this. calibredb list --fields title,authors,series,rating,publisher --sort-by=authors --separator=; > database.txt looks like ... 4 ;1634: The Baltic War ;Eric Flint & ;Ring of Fire ;2 ;Baen ; ; ;David Weber ; ; ; ; 346;An oblique approach ;Eric Flint & ;Belisarius ;0 ;Baen ; ; ;David Drake ; ; ; ; 76 ;In the Heart of Darkness ;Eric Flint & ;Belisarius ;0 ;Baen ; ; ;David Drake ; ; ; ; ... Any suggestions? Thank you! |
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08-16-2009, 01:46 PM | #10 |
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thank you
Thank you!
calibredb list --fields title,authors,series,series_index,rating --sort-by=authors --separator=; --line-width=500 --ascending > calibre_database.txt works for me! |
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When I try to do this (I type calibredb list), all I get is one line that says: id title authors
Can someone help me? |
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You've managed to dig up a thread that's more than a year old, as well. The information here is quite out of date. Nowadays you can just create a CSV catalog of your library (see the dropdown of the conversion button in the main toolbar), import that in Excel or OpenOffice Calc and print that. |
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I am using the latest version. I hunted around in the program for that kind of function but I obviously missed it. Thanks!
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