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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
You do realize Calibre has a Create Catalog option that does this already, right?
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I am aware of it, and even checked it out ages ago, but I don't recall being all that impressed by it, so don't remember much about it. I have to admit, I don't use calibre for much more than the basics, so not tried most of the options available, and the ones I have tried have often turned out to be too clunky ... hence causing me to make several of my own programs to compliment.
Does it just use the metadata or does it require a web connection to get the synopsis from elsewhere? Just the metadata from what I have now tested.
Many ebooks I have bought from Amazon at least, have nothing in the Description section of the metadata.opf file. So you would need to grab the description from the ebook's web page or some other site etc.
Personally, my full-time install of calibre is on an older PC not connected to the web. The version of calibre on my web connected PC only temporarily contains ebooks, after I first buy them, correct the metadata and then convert, fixing cover issues in the process.
My program would use the metadata in the first instance, but you could also manually update using synopses from the web. My program would contain web page links to help with that, and aside from using calibre to create the final ebook (MOBI or EPUB), it would be independent of calibre, once metadata has been extracted from the OPF files in its library folders.
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Interesting. For the sake of completeness, I just found the Create Catalog option under Convert Ebooks right-click menu in calibre -
Convert books ->
Create a catalog of all the ebooks in your calibre library.
Complex looking, but I gave it a whorl (64 ebooks) and I can see why I gave it a miss. Lots of control in some areas, but not in others ... which means unwanted stuff.
Still, at a pinch it could be useful to some. Especially if you have been diligent with the description in the metadata. Batch like that is quick and fast too.
But gawd, do I hate TAG abuse, which makes the Genre option useless.
P.S. I got it to produce a MOBI file, and viewed it in calibre, but not yet checked it out on an ereader. I just went with defaults, but I can see I would need to cull some of the options, especially for TAGS.