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Originally Posted by hsawires
@BetterRed
thank you for your reply.
yes, the Resize Cover plugin is awesome, Thank you.
I hope that Calibre can manage an existing list without importing them to its own Library, like importing books from XML, TXT or even CSV file. Manging this huge library is more important to me than importing them in Caliber library.
you may know that importing books into Calibre library is not the only problem, I find some books duplicated in specific folders which make the library itself very huge. like making virtual library or a series, something like that.
What I want to say is the enlargement of the Calibre library with no logical reason.
for the Arabic characters: what you suggest to me is just localizing the Calibre interface, but didn't deal with the database and the outputs. hereunder you can find what i get in my Calibre Library folders, when I choose to save books on my device or on my Harddisk.
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[ mthnwy mwln jll ldyn lrwmy (35)] cover.jpg
metadata.opf
mthnwy mwln jll ldyn lrwmy - 2.pdf [brhym sht] mthnwy jll ldyn lrwmy sh`r lSwfy@ l' (34) cover.jpg
metadata.opf
mthnwy jll ldyn lrwmy sh`r lSwf - brhym sht.pdf and so one ...
as you can see, recorded written in Arabic letters have nonsense system folder and files names.
probably I will take your advice switching to a Harddisk faster then my Internal one.
again, Thank you for your reply |
The first issue to resolve is to get the database to handle Arabic RTL script, the best person to help you with that is Kovid Goyal, hopefully he will make a contribution here - if he doesn't then I suggest you send him a PM.
Assuming you can get that issue resolved then there is another plugin that may be relevant - Import List - read about it here =>>
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=187831
How might this be of use - well if you could create a list of books as a TXT, CSV or XML file then you could use this plug in to 'register' their existence into the calibre database - that way you could leave the book files where they are. The list can include metadata which may enable you to use calibre to detect duplicates - perhaps via the Find Duplicates plugin. I would anticipate that importing a list of thousands of books will be a lot faster than importing the books themselves.
But the first issue to resolve is to get the database storing and presenting Arabic data
BR