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bob.f · 12-24-2017, 05:29 AM

Hi. I have recently added my kindle collection of around 2000 books to calibre. One piece of information that I have lost in doing so is the purchased date. In other words, on my kindle I could sort by recent date and get, more or less, my collection sorted by oldest to most recent purchase.

What I am wondering is whether there is a way to programmatically set the date added to calibre field. Perhaps via some sort of script? I don't want to have to do this manually but could probably cope with sourcing the dates and copying them to a batch routine.

I have come across the catalog and ebook-meta commands but I haven't put all the pieces together yet.

12-24-2017, 05:29 AM	#1
bob.f Connoisseur Posts: 78 Karma: 99068 Join Date: Nov 2017 Device: N/A	Programmatically set date added to calibre Hi. I have recently added my kindle collection of around 2000 books to calibre. One piece of information that I have lost in doing so is the purchased date. In other words, on my kindle I could sort by recent date and get, more or less, my collection sorted by oldest to most recent purchase. What I am wondering is whether there is a way to programmatically set the date added to calibre field. Perhaps via some sort of script? I don't want to have to do this manually but could probably cope with sourcing the dates and copying them to a batch routine. I have come across the catalog and ebook-meta commands but I haven't put all the pieces together yet.