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Old 11-18-2013, 01:21 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Montol View Post
More questions this has spawned:

1) With the new columns of Percent Read and Read Status, is there any quick way to tell Calibre to hide anything with the 100% / Finished status? Sorting works, of course, but if I could just hide the ones I've gotten through, then I could have a cleaner Author/Series sort. Definitely not a big deal, but I'm just curious.
You can create a virtual library. These are based on searches. The search "#kobo_percentread:<100" shows all the books in my library that have the percent read set and is less than 100. Basically everything in progress. Or, "not #kobo_percentread:100" shows everything that does not have a percent read of 100. Then, create a virtual library from this by click the "Virtual Library" button, choosing "Create Virtual Library", entering a name and pressing OK. This will then be added to the list of virtual libraries. Calibre can open each in tab that you can click between.
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2) Is KoboUtilities supposed to do the Store/Restore thing automatically for all of the Custom Columns? I'd love if I could plug my Kobo in and it just flowed that info through to Calibre, that'd be great.
No, it doesn't run automatically. It something I started looking at a while ago, but got distracted. It's about time to revisit it.
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3) Is there any way to do this for books downloaded from the Kobo Storefront? I downloaded a bunch of free classics that I'd love to have marked 'Finished' in this manner to maintain this database of completed books I'd like to build up over time, but, while Calibre recognizes them on the device, it does not keep anything for them in Calibre, as they are 'virtual' books. Would the only real way of doing it to simply replace those Kobo-obtained free books with copies from, say, Project Gutenberg instead?
I assume these are kepubs downloaded directly to the device. If so, there are two choices. One is to download the epub version and add it to the calibre library. I usually do this when I buy a book. But, depending on the formatting, I might edit the epub and read that instead of the kepub.

You can also add an empty book in calibre. Right-click on the "Add books" button and select "Add an empty book". Calibre will prompt for some details and then add the book without a format. Then you can set the rest of the metadata for the book.

Also, if you are after public domain books, have a look in the library here at MR. The versions here tend to be very good.

I was just about to post when I noticed Helen's post. I always forget about that. Calibre does a good job of matching between the library and the device, but with that, it means you can fix that don't match.
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