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Originally Posted by thomasmorus
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Missing features:
Date added: I would really like to use the date added from calibre. because at the first load all books are under the same date!)
Import to a specifc Set - as i use multiblee library with calibre
Thanks for the good work and continue please
Best regards
Thomas
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About the first request for treating "Date Added" specially for calibre server:
- The "date added" of a book as recorded by BookMaster when you import the book via a calibre OPDS server (or any other server or book source) is indeed the time you add it to BookMaster, but not intended as the time when the book was added to calibre (or any other server or book source) earlier. Shouldn't that be the common expectation in general?
- Even if we wanted to give special treatment to calibre, there were technically no way to do it via its OPDS server. The entry associated with each book contains only one time-stamp, the time it was last modified/updated by calibre, which is not necessarily the same as the time the book was added. This difference can be easily verified by a simple experiment anyone can do. Knowing that there may be a difference, do you still want to treat the update time as if it were the creation (date added) time? Are you willing to be confused sometimes that different books imported from different sources (calibre or others) might have a different interpretation of creation (date added) timestamps?
As for the second request to import books to a specific set
- All imported books initially go to the built-in set named "Ungrouped". Just move the books from Ungrouped to the specific set you want after (batch) import from calibre, one virtual library at a time. Arranging them by "Date Added" will help.
- We've just double-checked that calibre OPDS server does not provide any information about user-created virtual libraries. Thus, importing some books to some set, and other books to another set
automatically are not possible.
Ok, you might ask why it was possible for some other apps (on iOS and/or Android) to do exactly or almost exactly what you want in the first place? I am not an expert on those apps. But I don't think they did it through calibre's OPDS server. There are stories circulating on mobileread.com about how some of these non-OPDS (standard) plug-in approach has broken as calibre is constantly being upgraded over the years.