Thank you for your response!
Quote:
Originally Posted by GRiker
To clarify, you would like to have entries in calibre representing books installed on your iDevice in multiple reader apps, with a column indicating which reader app has the book installed.
There is no automated way to do this currently, but it can be done manually.
Create a custom column of type 'Text, but with a fixed set of permitted values'. Those values would initially be 'Nook', 'Kobo' and 'Kindle'.
You would then create a new book by selecting Add books|Add empty book to create a new book in your library without any associated content. Add the metadata, then set the custom column to indicate which reader app the book is installed in.
G
|
I apologize for not being exact with my problem description. I do know that I would have to add a field to Calibre - that is not my problem. My problem is adding the books to Calibre. Since I do not have individual devices for each library, only the applications, I do not know how to find and add all the books to Calibre.
I have found many references on how to get books
from Calibre on to any device, but I cannot find any information on how to get the libraries from the devices (or more accurately, the apps) to put the books
into Calibre. I cannot find the Nook or Kobo libraries stored on my computer (MacBook) nor does iTunes recognize any content when accessing the apps. I realize that I could enter all 500+ entries manually by going through each app and then each book one by one, however I simply do not have the time. I was looking for a way to automate the book-adding process.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I just can't find what I'm looking for. I suppose ideally what I would love would be to put my account information for each (B&N, Amazon and Kobo) in a library manager (e.g. Calibre) and have it automatically update the list the way the apps currently do. For what I would like it is not necessary to load the complete book - I really only need the metadata and the ability to organize it the way I would like. I'm only asking about adding the whole library because it looks like that's the only way to do this.
Thank you!