Thread: Incrementing a column for selected books
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Old 08-24-2020, 12:49 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by tranquilo2 View Post
If you look at the library you see a read-only fixed column on the left with a 1 to nnn number. I need to export *that* number somehow.
Do you mean the first column? That is just a line number in the list and changes as you sort the books. There is an id that is unique to each book in the library. That can be extracted with command line tools and used for updating the metadata from the command line.

Another possibility is the Reading List plugin. It can group sets of books together. The order in the lists are the order the books are added, but, it can be changed. The Import List plugin has an option to put the books into a Reading List. The Reading List plugin does allow a book to be in multiple lists. Using series or anything else would probably mean multiple custom columns for multiple lists.

But, whatever you do is going to take time. The problem is you need to find the books, get them in the appropriate order, and then add whatever metadata is needed to keep that list and order. Because of that, I think the Import List is probably the simplest way.
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