MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - How to 'shelve' books on NEW Kobo when already listed in Calibre?

LivresInOz · 01-06-2022, 08:21 AM

[I haven't read above reply yet but thankyou for it...In the meantime...]

I suspect part of the problem is that the books have different names as raw epub/pdf files, versus what they are named in Calibre

(Admittedly I did also add a heap of books that are NOT in Calibre)

This video partially answered my question:
Calibre: Adding Books from Library to Device or Device to Library

Here is my plan:

1. Keep all the books on the Kobo nicely organised into various folders (as I said, for Koreader and Plato)

2. Use the method described in the video to put the books that are NOT being detected by Calibre, INTO calibre.

3. Now I will have some duplicate entries in the library.
But MANY will be the BETTER entries that have all my nice shelf info.
So I do the following...

4. FIND DUPLICATES using the plugin with that name

5. Go through the duplicates and use EDIT METADATA > MERGE BOOK RECORDS
to delete the books that have the useless metadata, leaving only the books with the good metadata

6. I expect it wont find all of the dupes, because some will have slightly different names or sizes.
So I will order by name then by size etc in Calibre to repeat step 5

This is my rough plan!

01-06-2022, 08:21 AM	#3
LivresInOz LivresInOz Posts: 330 Karma: 15958 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Kobo: Forma + Libra\|Galaxy: TAB A7 + Note 8 tablet\|Boox: Note Air 2	[I haven't read above reply yet but thankyou for it...In the meantime...] I suspect part of the problem is that the books have different names as raw epub/pdf files, versus what they are named in Calibre (Admittedly I did also add a heap of books that are NOT in Calibre) This video partially answered my question: Calibre: Adding Books from Library to Device or Device to Library Here is my plan: 1. Keep all the books on the Kobo nicely organised into various folders (as I said, for Koreader and Plato) 2. Use the method described in the video to put the books that are NOT being detected by Calibre, INTO calibre. 3. Now I will have some duplicate entries in the library. But MANY will be the BETTER entries that have all my nice shelf info. So I do the following... 4. FIND DUPLICATES using the plugin with that name 5. Go through the duplicates and use EDIT METADATA > MERGE BOOK RECORDS to delete the books that have the useless metadata, leaving only the books with the good metadata 6. I expect it wont find all of the dupes, because some will have slightly different names or sizes. So I will order by name then by size etc in Calibre to repeat step 5 This is my rough plan!