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Originally Posted by philglen
Hi all,
I am new to EBooks and Calibre and this is my first post.
I always have trouble remembering which printed books I have read and have been guilty of buying the same book twice ( admittedly several years apart)
Is there any easy way of adding a list of previously read books so you can check before buying new ones?
Cheers
Philglen
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in addition to MaggieMe
a 2 stage operation
in Preferences: Behavior
there is a box "Tags to add" We have to do this way as this is the only field we can control this way). type in a Unique-unused Tag name eg 17new
Now use Add from ISBN section of Add books (whips out trusty barcode scanner, copies an pasts the list of ISBN's from a spreadsheet or doc)
Now use the Tag Browser or search bar to Find "17new" Tags
Select All
Bulk edit Meta-data and have it mark your Custom user 'read' field
Apply
Now set Tags to Remove: to "17new"
OK (we just got rid of the temporary marker tags)
Go back and remove the Tags to add in preferences(or it will happen for any book added in the future).
Developers: would it be easy to have a Add tag: that is 1) part of the Add ISBN dialog 2)the Value (remembered) only applies when using Add ISBN?