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Chandrak · 12-29-2014, 07:24 PM

I recently came into a truly massive pile of ebooks that probably runs back something like 10 or 15 years, and has something like 10k+ files in it. (Mostly duplicates in various formats, but easily several thousand books total). I've decided to take on the daunting task of setting it all up in Calibre.

My main question is wondering if there's a way I can get Calibre to just export a list of just the authors - as far as I can figure out, the Catalogue feature will make me a book that lists all books by author, but I dont need all the titles. I just want something that will help me find authors I actually am interested in.

On a seperate issue, not really part of the question, but I'd appreciate any advice people might have on importing such a massively ridiculous archive of books, because it looks like a lot of these don't have any proper metadata, or at least Calibre doesn't read it right. (Hence wanting to do the list of authors only, because that part I can do en-masse pretty quickly, and then find who I like, and actually do the metadata myself for those few).

12-29-2014, 07:24 PM	#1
Chandrak Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2014 Device: iPhone	Can Calibre output a list of JUST authors? I recently came into a truly massive pile of ebooks that probably runs back something like 10 or 15 years, and has something like 10k+ files in it. (Mostly duplicates in various formats, but easily several thousand books total). I've decided to take on the daunting task of setting it all up in Calibre. My main question is wondering if there's a way I can get Calibre to just export a list of just the authors - as far as I can figure out, the Catalogue feature will make me a book that lists all books by author, but I dont need all the titles. I just want something that will help me find authors I actually am interested in. On a seperate issue, not really part of the question, but I'd appreciate any advice people might have on importing such a massively ridiculous archive of books, because it looks like a lot of these don't have any proper metadata, or at least Calibre doesn't read it right. (Hence wanting to do the list of authors only, because that part I can do en-masse pretty quickly, and then find who I like, and actually do the metadata myself for those few).