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coolnamehere · 12-20-2013, 12:54 AM

the catalog feature is new to me and have been learning how to use it for a few days, read the catalog sticky and got pretty far but there's one last piece. (linux, sony prs 300, calibre r0.7.27 which I know is old but I'd like to stay with it.)

I have about 1/4 of my calibre lib books on the device. my only desire for the catalog is so when I'm using my reader I can see what a book on it is about by using metadata "comments".

I plug in my reader, select only those books on the device and do "convert -> create..." to get my initial catalog. this part works great.

but the problem is I can't seem to get the catalog appended for any new books I send to the device. I've tried "Only..." which doesn't seem to update lib or device catalog, same for "Manual...", and "Automatic..." just rebuilds the catalog with everything in the lib and puts that on my reader.

so is there a way I can have new books sent update the catalog with just that book's metadata?

12-20-2013, 12:54 AM	#1
coolnamehere Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: prs300	update catalog with device-only books? the catalog feature is new to me and have been learning how to use it for a few days, read the catalog sticky and got pretty far but there's one last piece. (linux, sony prs 300, calibre r0.7.27 which I know is old but I'd like to stay with it.) I have about 1/4 of my calibre lib books on the device. my only desire for the catalog is so when I'm using my reader I can see what a book on it is about by using metadata "comments". I plug in my reader, select only those books on the device and do "convert -> create..." to get my initial catalog. this part works great. but the problem is I can't seem to get the catalog appended for any new books I send to the device. I've tried "Only..." which doesn't seem to update lib or device catalog, same for "Manual...", and "Automatic..." just rebuilds the catalog with everything in the lib and puts that on my reader. so is there a way I can have new books sent update the catalog with just that book's metadata?