Thread: Calibre Companion for iPad?
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Old 10-10-2016, 07:30 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by Dchiplin View Post
Hi Marty - I found your instructions and hoped this would be the lifesaver to keep Marvin on my iPad and Calibre synced since the iOS plug-in broke. I get books over using Calibre OPDS but can no longer sync them in any reasonable way as I cannot "see" what books are on my iPad.

I created the column as per your instructions and am stymied from there. I must be missing something on how I will know which items are currently in Marvin to do the "bulk" edit in Calibre. I have many hundred books in Marvin on my iPad so not really possible to eyeball it. Can you provide any additional instructions?

Much appreciate any help with this.
One thing to keep in mind is that you can do a bulk select and download a bunch of books at the same time. Since Marvin won't double add a book, just download everything so you now know that everything in Calibre is in Marvin. After that point, you can simply sort by date added and see what the most recent book is, then when you download, sort by newest and download any books that are before the most recent book in Marvin. That's what I did.

I managed to download almost 3000 books that way.
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