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Old 08-15-2018, 08:20 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by pg111 View Post
Thanks,BR, but what I have on mind is a more wide case of use. My final goal would be unifying my two digital books and paper books libraries into a single management system that features the best from BookCAT but in calibre UI.

Is it what custom columns are made for?

Patrik
In this case there is no requirement to use any custom columns, the Add Books drop down has two relevant options, viz

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I mainly use the first one with silly values in author and title e.g. fred and blah, this will add a line to the top of the list which I then edit. I do all my metadata editing on the book list lines, rather than the modal dialogue boxes.

I have an Admin Tags custom column in which I put values such as Paper Book, Wanted Book, EBook etc. I prefer to only put Subject descriptors into the built-in Tags column.

If you can get a CSV file from BookCAT you could use the Import List plugin to replicate the BookCAT catalogue in calibre,

BR

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