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Georgie W · 01-10-2021, 02:57 PM

I've got details of ~1000 books sitting in a text file from the BookCollector programme. I want to bring all 1000 books into Calibre, with a minimum of re-keying.

I can see how to import the bare detail (author / title / publisher) into Calibre using the Import List plugin.

My issue is: how can I interpret the subject headings I've allocated in BookCollector as separate tags in Calibre? E.g. I've got a book with BookCollector subjects: History / England / Regency. In the text / .csv file, these appear in one column as "History; England; Regency;". BUT I can't see how to tell the Import List plugin to create separate tags for each of these items.

I've flirted with regex in the Adding books Preference, telling Calibre to keep tags if they match the pattern "(?P<tag>.+); (?P<tag>.+); (?P<tag>.+)" But I *really* don't know what I'm doing with regex, or even if that's the right way to translate the csv elements into discrete tags.

Any advice welcomed. Thanks.

01-10-2021, 02:57 PM	#1
Georgie W Connoisseur Posts: 96 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Scotland Device: KT4 5.13.6	Importing library from BookCollector (Collectorz.com) I've got details of ~1000 books sitting in a text file from the BookCollector programme. I want to bring all 1000 books into Calibre, with a minimum of re-keying. I can see how to import the bare detail (author / title / publisher) into Calibre using the Import List plugin. My issue is: how can I interpret the subject headings I've allocated in BookCollector as separate tags in Calibre? E.g. I've got a book with BookCollector subjects: History / England / Regency. In the text / .csv file, these appear in one column as "History; England; Regency;". BUT I can't see how to tell the Import List plugin to create separate tags for each of these items. I've flirted with regex in the Adding books Preference, telling Calibre to keep tags if they match the pattern "(?P<tag>.+); (?P<tag>.+); (?P<tag>.+)" But I really don't know what I'm doing with regex, or even if that's the right way to translate the csv elements into discrete tags. Any advice welcomed. Thanks.