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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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 it to get the database storing and presenting Arabic data
BR |
For the second time in one day your help is so valuable to me. I give "Import List plugin" a try and it works very smoothly. this is what I meant. except some little bugs I will report it to it's thread later.
now I can generate a list of all my books in a .txt with some steps I can generate an XML file have the book title and its local path on the harddisk.
my question is:
what is the field name of the "Choose Format for" or where Calibre store the path of the book? the way I can open it when clicked, I mean the (container folder). If I got one of those information I can send it from my TXT or XML as a regular expression and import it into caliber without loosing the link to my file. and the book will not be empty anymore.
I am thinking of something like the following expression:
(?P<title>.*?) \- (?P<authors>.*)\.(?P<formats>.*) \; (?P<path>.*)
Sample:
Basic Rendring - Robert W. Gill.pdf ; d:\My Ebooks\Arts\Basic_Rendring_Robert_W._Gill.pdf
I hope it can be possible. because if it possible the cover page of the file will be possible to import as a link too. and make the database more lighter. - what do you think??
Thank you BR for your valuable help.