[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

If it was really necessary to use a script, couldn't we just use:

for file in *.epub *.mobi *.azw3 *.txt; do
    calibredb add $file
done

or the Windows equivalent?

And then drop that into the folder and double-click.

Does that not assume all the formats are in the same folder or at least in an orderly folder structure?

I was assuming from this

I have read several tricks in other sites but none has worked

that the books were scattered around a tree in a disorderly fashion.

I've run into this with a couple of new calibre installs. I've used a file locator such as agent ransack to find files in a tree (device), sort by file type, remove unwanted types/files, copy paths to a file (e.g. addbooks.bat) and wrap calibredb-add " and " around each line.

I guess I could drag drop out of the file locator, or create hardlinks in a folder and add books from there. But the advantage of 'my way' is that the batch file itself provides a simple audit trail with no effort. The alternative would be to use a file system log analyser to extract an audit trail...

BR