I have been using the Add Empty Book (Book entry with no formats) to add books I've gotten from Amazon for my Kindle to Calibre. Back in the day, when I had an extensive real world book collection, I developed a pretty sophisticated Access DB to keep track of that library, now I want to use Calibre in the same fashion.
I have numerous Amazon freebies, and it's not always convenient to go back to Amazon to read the blurb about the book to see if I want to read it right now. To this end, I have been adding Amazon books to Calibre as I obtain them. Then I went on vacation for a month. My Calibre library lives on a hard drive attached to my desktop. While I was gone, I was using my laptop. So, I downloaded Calibre and used the Add Empty Book option for all the Amazon books I obtained while I was away. I just tried to add these books to my main Calibre library by using Add books from directory including sub-directories (assuming each is a different book) and none of the books were added.
When I add books with no format, I always download metadata and covers, so there is a folder, metadata.opf and cover.jpg file for every book.
Am I trying to do the impossible? Is there a plugin for this kind of operation? Should I be trying to import the library I created on my laptop?
Thanks,
Mad
