MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Do you use calibre to manage your printed books library?

BetterRed · 08-16-2018, 02:38 AM

@pg111 - yes, that makes sense. If you give the calibre custom columns you want to copy from BookCAT the same name then there's no mapping to do. But be careful you don't copy BookCAT's shortcomings, calibre's flexibility may offer more efficient/convenient alternatives.

I get the impression you may be over-thinking it. I suggest you select a representative subset of books (probably about 30) from the BookCAT catalogue and add them manually to an "Experimental" calibre library. You can then add/remove/change custom columns as you see fit, play around with Preference settings to see what they do, try out some of the plugins etc etc.

@davidfor - I already gave IL a plug

BR

08-16-2018, 02:38 AM	#11
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,890 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@pg111 - yes, that makes sense. If you give the calibre custom columns you want to copy from BookCAT the same name then there's no mapping to do. But be careful you don't copy BookCAT's shortcomings, calibre's flexibility may offer more efficient/convenient alternatives. I get the impression you may be over-thinking it. I suggest you select a representative subset of books (probably about 30) from the BookCAT catalogue and add them manually to an "Experimental" calibre library. You can then add/remove/change custom columns as you see fit, play around with Preference settings to see what they do, try out some of the plugins etc etc. @davidfor - I already gave IL a plug BR