Thread: Using Calibre Companion as a Catalogue
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Old 07-12-2015, 11:03 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Agama View Post
Just updated covers for about 20 books and connected CC to calibre and bingo! all covers were updated automatically just as you said - so neat!

Now, CC works so well with my eBooks that I'd like to extend it to catalogue my paper books too. I can easily add the required records to calibre but just wondered what the best method would be to distinguish between eBooks and physical books within CC.

Ideas so far:

1) Add physical books to calibre as "empty" .lit formats, (as in 'literal' = physical book), and then view this format data in CC's book data.

2) Add a custom column to calibre to specify format: eBook|physical|both

Any suggestions on the merits of these or other solutions would be most welcome.
.LIT is a valid (existing) format. Old, yes. But still owned by M$

In Calibre, an empty book needs (has) no format by definition.

I would not mind seeing the option to include 'empty Books'
(I have a VL to show only 'empty books')

It does not make sense to me, to have to create a EPUB catalog of 'empty books' to carry along . I use 'Empty books' as a wish/shopping list, but it also serves to document my Paper Library.
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