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ilovejedd · 02-10-2018, 02:02 PM

Plenty of text editors to automate converting the list of book ids to script. I use Notepad++ on Windows. Easy to do a regex search and replace of the list and save the result as batch file.

For example (using a csv/tag-type custom column for multiple values and easy access via tag browser):

1234
5678

to

calibredb set_custom #process 1234 "edit"
calibredb set_custom #process 5678 "edit"

Notepad++
search: ^(.*)$
replace: calibredb set_custom #process \1 "edit"

Really convenient particularly when one needs to mark hundreds (or even thousands) of books.

02-10-2018, 02:02 PM	#7
ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,110 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	Plenty of text editors to automate converting the list of book ids to script. I use Notepad++ on Windows. Easy to do a regex search and replace of the list and save the result as batch file. For example (using a csv/tag-type custom column for multiple values and easy access via tag browser): 1234 5678 to calibredb set_custom #process 1234 "edit" calibredb set_custom #process 5678 "edit" Notepad++ search: ^(.*)$ replace: calibredb set_custom #process \1 "edit" Really convenient particularly when one needs to mark hundreds (or even thousands) of books.