Thread: Genres using DDC, templates, and automation?
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Old 03-18-2016, 08:34 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Ersatzreifen View Post
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Ok, I got CALM installed and tried to use it repeatedly over the past few days, but I really don't understand what I'm supposed to do, and it's not working for me. I tried to follow the embedded instructions enumerated in the Target Library tab, but the nomenclature used isn't familiar to me so I'm having a really difficult time understanding what it's talking about.
My libraries are named "Calibre Library", "Broken-Books", and the like, but trying to run load all libraries looks like this:

Is it supposed to look like that, with 01, 02, 03 instead of full pathnames?
What does Target Library mean? It seems to be used for different things, depending on where in the instructions it's being used.
And why don't the tabs named Metadata tools and Library tools function?
I wasn't able to find any Derive Genres function, perhaps that's within the two tabs that won't open.


I don't know SQL, so I'd like to avoid yet another steep learning curve.



I have the #lcc column and the #dcc and isbn columns too. 20,156 books, most (17,337) have isbn numbers, and most of those (13,184) have ddc numbers. But not one lcc number is present for any books, so I don't think it's a simple lacunae of data problem, more like something's wrong with the #lcc column. I do get a somewhat vague error message when running LC:


That seems strange, since the #lcc column is there.

Maybe there's something wrong with it, I don't know.

@Ersatzreifen:

Given your comments, I now suggest this:

[1] LC: confirm the configuration of LC itself, plus your custom column configuration in Preferences > Add your own columns.

[2] CALM: uninstall.

[3] Using Calibre's standard functionality, copy #ddc into #genre, so the 'genre' is temporarily the ddc.

[4] Sort by genre (which is temporarily ddc at this point).

[5] Select all rows in the GUI that have the same 'genre'.

[6] Using Calibre's Bulk Edit feature, change the #genre column of the selected books from the ddc into the real genre that you want to have.

[7] Repeat [5] and [6] until finished.


Good luck.


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