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Originally Posted by Floating Quietly
It's a fair point. But I'm curious how you think about my situation.
I used a different program that had a date field with the identical semantics of Calibre. The date field represented when the record was created in that program.
I exported that program's information to a CSV and now want to import it to Calibre.
I'd like to exactly re-hydrate the information from the other program in Calibre so that I can order by the Date column and know it represents when I added the content (which is not the same as when I read the content, in many cases that was months before the add date).
How would you suggest I create that experience in Calibre? And ideally how can I create it without having to constantly type dates in an extra field for every new book I add forever. That is just going to be really annoying. Especially when I forget to do it and a book gets "lost". So now I have to go write some kind of logic to detect missing dates and fix them. 
Thoughts? |
If you are doing this as an initial import, I can see doing the change.
As a 1 time work around.
Import that date into a custom column
Then use the Bulk mode Metadata Edit (MDE) S&R: to effect a copy of just those with custom dates (find: #mydatename:true) into the {date}
Backups are ALWAYS a good idea when doing bulk MDE operations
Do this using an Intake Library , ALSO SET Preferences: Adding Books: Adding actions (a tab) tick the
preserve date
Once things have settled. Use the Copy TO Library (on context menu) to move TO the Target library