[CEW4]

Hi everyone, and, if I may, especially "Mr. Calibre" Kovid, ;-)

I'm currently building my ebook library with Calibre. For that, I'm importing a number of books together, then edit them individually for correct metadata, series sequence number and so on. I've also created custom columns for the information I wish to enter for each book.

The problem is that right after each import, I'm exactly one mouse click away from chaos: After import, the new, un-metatagged books are grouped together on top of the library, making it fairly ease to work on them one by one. But, should the sorting order of the library be changed only once, it's good-bye: The new books will slip into the mass of existing books and it is very hard to find them again and properly work on them.

A solution would be if imported books were automatically made part of a special series that could be selected for display using the tree view on the left. When tagging a new book, one would either remove or replace the series tag, thereby officially "taking over" the book from "scratchpad" to "tagging complete" status.

Maybe it would even be possible to create a "imported books get this preset metadata" dialog: Here you could define which metadata field (including custom fields) is auto-populated with which value (static or generated from source file, like original filename or directory) on importing a book. Then, those settings could even be designated an "import profile", which in turn could be selected on the import dialog.

I've noticed that much in Calibre can already be scripted in some way - is something like this already possible? If not - could such a mechanism be worth considering for a future release?

Regards,
CEW4