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geruser · 09-15-2013, 12:26 PM

Hi,
I want to import a huge subdir-structure into calibre. I learned that calibre will rearrange the books in the library.

The library now is organized by subject. E. g.: The Book 'DNS in action.pdf' is located in 'c:\books\sysadmin\linux\dns'. When importing this book automatically I want to auto-add the categories 'sysadmin', 'linux' and 'dns'. Another example: The book 'stranger in a strange land.txt' is located in 'c:\books\fiction\english\heinlein'. And here I want the categories 'fiction', 'english' and 'heinlein'. I know that heinlein must be the name of the author. But that comes later because I can't get metadata from a txt-file. I can live - for some time - with author = unknown as long as I have the category 'heinlein'.

How do I have to set up the import process to achieve this?

09-15-2013, 12:26 PM	#1
geruser Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: none	Convert subdirs to categories while importing automatically Hi, I want to import a huge subdir-structure into calibre. I learned that calibre will rearrange the books in the library. The library now is organized by subject. E. g.: The Book 'DNS in action.pdf' is located in 'c:\books\sysadmin\linux\dns'. When importing this book automatically I want to auto-add the categories 'sysadmin', 'linux' and 'dns'. Another example: The book 'stranger in a strange land.txt' is located in 'c:\books\fiction\english\heinlein'. And here I want the categories 'fiction', 'english' and 'heinlein'. I know that heinlein must be the name of the author. But that comes later because I can't get metadata from a txt-file. I can live - for some time - with author = unknown as long as I have the category 'heinlein'. How do I have to set up the import process to achieve this?