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Old 11-02-2011, 07:17 AM   #5
chaley
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
I'll go out on a limb and say it can only be done with scripting and command line tools or by writing some special code. (If it's possible, saying it can't be done will draw out anyone who knows how to do it.)
You are correct. Calibre's internal scripting (the template language) operates on a book-by-book basis. There is no way to operate on a set of books.

You can, of course, do this by writing a plugin. Plugins can do more-or-less anything to any group of books.
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