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greene48 · 10-25-2013, 10:39 AM

Well, by "manually" I mean opening up the Calibre GUI to update the .db.
I can't do this since ChromeOS is basically just the chrome browser. So I can't install calibre on it. But I could install linux on my Chrombook to install Calibre if I need to run the Calibre GUI.
But this wouldn't be my ideal solution.
Do you need to open up the Calibre GUI everytime you want to add a new book to your .db?

I oversimplified the way I'm processing my books. The "script" I'm using is actually a python program I have installed on my server called LazyLibrarian: https://github.com/herman-rogers/LazyLibrarian-1
This can be used to downloads books from nzb sites, (by passing them to Sabnzbd+), store them in the correct location, and then process them with cover pictures and metadata.
At the moment, I am only using the "postprocessing.py" script that comes with the program. I used it to process my current book collection, and have it setup to process any new book I move into my processing folder.
That script is located here: https://github.com/herman-rogers/Laz...postprocess.py

If this could be adapted to update the metadata.db file as well it would be ideal. Can you update the metadata.db file from the CLI?

10-25-2013, 10:39 AM	#5
greene48 Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2013 Device: Nexus 7 (2013)	Well, by "manually" I mean opening up the Calibre GUI to update the .db. I can't do this since ChromeOS is basically just the chrome browser. So I can't install calibre on it. But I could install linux on my Chrombook to install Calibre if I need to run the Calibre GUI. But this wouldn't be my ideal solution. Do you need to open up the Calibre GUI everytime you want to add a new book to your .db? I oversimplified the way I'm processing my books. The "script" I'm using is actually a python program I have installed on my server called LazyLibrarian: https://github.com/herman-rogers/LazyLibrarian-1 This can be used to downloads books from nzb sites, (by passing them to Sabnzbd+), store them in the correct location, and then process them with cover pictures and metadata. At the moment, I am only using the "postprocessing.py" script that comes with the program. I used it to process my current book collection, and have it setup to process any new book I move into my processing folder. That script is located here: https://github.com/herman-rogers/Laz...postprocess.py If this could be adapted to update the metadata.db file as well it would be ideal. Can you update the metadata.db file from the CLI?