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Hazeldor · 03-20-2011, 07:51 PM

Hello all,

I have a large collection of ebooks for research that I was previously managing with JabRef locally on my PC. I am moving these to my iPAD with Calibre and Stanza. My question is: I have a large amount of metadata ready in a JabRef .bib database file. How can I import this information into Calibre when I add books from my collection? Is there an appropriate plugin for example? Jabref allows me to export to an external database such as MySQL so if there is a way to get metadata from a custom MySQL database that would work for me equally well.

I am interested in fields like Series, Edition, Editors as well as the standard author and publisher fields.

Many thanks for any help you can giive me on what looks like a great piece of software!

03-20-2011, 07:51 PM	#1
Hazeldor Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: iPAD	Importing Metadata from .bib or MySQL Database Hello all, I have a large collection of ebooks for research that I was previously managing with JabRef locally on my PC. I am moving these to my iPAD with Calibre and Stanza. My question is: I have a large amount of metadata ready in a JabRef .bib database file. How can I import this information into Calibre when I add books from my collection? Is there an appropriate plugin for example? Jabref allows me to export to an external database such as MySQL so if there is a way to get metadata from a custom MySQL database that would work for me equally well. I am interested in fields like Series, Edition, Editors as well as the standard author and publisher fields. Many thanks for any help you can giive me on what looks like a great piece of software!