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Old 07-06-2013, 02:54 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by madelonw View Post
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
copy the Laptop Library (the entire folder) onto a flash drive (calibre does not officially support network drives...data reliability issues )

Now sneakernet the flash drive to the desktop
Use the Library Icon Right click: Create/switch: use existing: (you guessed it, the flash drive one).

Select those (empty or full) books: right-click: copy to Library: (the main one)
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