Thread: Cant figure out how to catalog using calibredb
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Old 11-18-2020, 09:26 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Dan Goodale View Post
Hi folks. I have 45,000 books across 7 Calibre libraries. I want to use calibredb to create catalogs for all the libraries and merge them into one .csv file to make it easier to find all of an authors books, regardless of genre.

The documentation for calibredb isn't clear enough to help me do this successfully. For my test, I tried to catalog my archive library
C:\"Program Files"\Calibre\calibredb catalog archives C:\batch\test\archives.csv

But I get:
Failed to initialize plugin: 'C:\\Users\\Dan\\AppData\\Roaming\\calibre\\plugin s\\DeDRM.zip'
Usage: calibredb.exe command [options] [arguments]

Can someone explain to me how to write a script that actually works, please?

Thanks!

Dan Goodale
Your issue may be because you are using 5.x, which precludes the above mentioned PI. Uninstall the PI.

AFAIK calibredb has no ability to append to a single CSV
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