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davidfor · 03-07-2013, 05:23 AM

I think TechniSol is right. There isn't any practical way to put that number of books onto shelves except via calibre.

You might be able to get away with adding all the books to calibre, setting up the shelves and then connecting the device. At that point, calibre will try to match the books in the library to the books on the device. If it is successful, it will set the shelves. But, I don't know how accurate this will be. It should be better than 95%, but there will be some left over. Plus it will take a long time. I would expect several hours. If you do it, please tell me how long. And again, as TechniSol suggests, do it in smaller batches.

When you add the books to calibre, make sure you have the options set to read the metadata from the books. That is what the device uses, so that should help the accuracy of the matching.

03-07-2013, 05:23 AM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I think TechniSol is right. There isn't any practical way to put that number of books onto shelves except via calibre. You might be able to get away with adding all the books to calibre, setting up the shelves and then connecting the device. At that point, calibre will try to match the books in the library to the books on the device. If it is successful, it will set the shelves. But, I don't know how accurate this will be. It should be better than 95%, but there will be some left over. Plus it will take a long time. I would expect several hours. If you do it, please tell me how long. And again, as TechniSol suggests, do it in smaller batches. When you add the books to calibre, make sure you have the options set to read the metadata from the books. That is what the device uses, so that should help the accuracy of the matching.