Thread: Calibre with public library books?
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Old 07-05-2016, 04:54 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh View Post
Hello,

I'm looking for a way to track availability of book series across a number of public libraries. I want a tool that will import an ordered series list, say Michael Connelly, and then as I locate each book in a library I would update this list so I know where to find it when I'm ready for it.

This probably sounds silly, but I won't start a series until I've located all the books, and using Overdrive to search a dozen libraries over and over is tedious and cumbersome since it has no way to save results.

I'm new to Calibre and it looks like there might be plugins that could help with this, so I thought I would ask here if this sounds feasible? Otherwise I'll bite the bullet and just use Excel...

Thanks,
CC
@cc_in_oh - try something like this.

Create empty books for each book in a series, perhaps from a CSV via the Import List plugin.

Add a tag like custom column "available_from/Available From" into which you put the library names (possibly via the Import List PI) as and when you find them.

BR
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