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Originally Posted by CyborgQueen
To create your own columns, Click on Preferences, then under the Interface grouping, you'll see Add Your Own Columns. Click on the big green plus, and go at it.  You can customize the type of column you want (yes/no, stars, etc).
Have fun!
I just made mine Read column to Yes/No. And whatever I read a book, I just change it to yes and it shows up a checkmark. I also added a column for date formula to add the date that I read the book.
To back up your preferences, there should be two files in your Calibre library. One says metadata.db, the other says metadata_db_pref_backup.json. The second file is your preference file...all you need to do is make sure the two files is copied over to your back up, and whenever you change preferences, make sure you overwrite the old file with the new preferences. |
I would recommend backing up the entire library folder. That is the author/book folders, plus the metadata.db, and metadata_db_pref_backup.json files. Within the database (metadata.db) there are linkages to the folders, the integrity of the library will be compromised if the database and the author/book folders get out of 'alignment'.
I would also suggest that you backup your calibre configuration folder, many preferences are global i.e they apply to all libraries -
Preferences->Miscellaneous->Open calibre configuration directory will tell you where it's located
If you do incremental backups via one of the folder synchronisation tools, then after the initial backup of everything, it will probably only take a few minutes a day.
BR