Thread: Looking for a cataloging app. Anyone tried Libib?
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Old 01-19-2022, 10:33 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Drou View Post
(Also, if anyone is wondering about why not use Calibre, I like Calibre but I don't find it intuitive, I did not want to upload every single ebook I own to Calibre so that I could catalogue it, and unless you scroll through all the books and select each one, one by one, you cannot see a cover or description so is too time consuming.)
These seem to be the only objections to calibre.

For the first, "not intuitive", I can't comment really on. I've been using calibre for it to be natural. But, I don't remember having any real issues. There are always things in application that jar, but, as long as the application is consistent within itself, I am usually OK.

For the "upload every single ebook", that is effectively what you did for libib. Except that seemed to be fairly painful. You needed to look it up on another site and then add it to libib?

If I had to do this in calibre, I would add the books (one at a time, or drag-and-drop a batch or use the auto add), then select them in the interface and start the background metadata fetch. Unless the titles and authors in the file names were bad, or they were very unusual books, 95% would be match and I would get the details including the cover. The rest handle would need to be handled one at a time, but it would largely be fixing typos in the titles or authors. It would take a while, but most of it can be done unattended.

If you don't want the book files in calibre, you could also generate a CSV from the file names and import that to calibre. Then do the rest that I mentioned.

The last thing you mentions is covers being displayed for multiple booksFor the covers, calibre has the cover grid that shows multiple covers with the titles and other details. And the cover browser that lets you scroll through them in another way. The only thing missing is a list view with an icon. Or, as you are happy using a browser app, you can use the calibre server which does have a list view with a cover icon.


But, a big reason for calibre to me is that I maintain the books and the details in one place. Using libib, goodreads or one of the other sites would mean I maintained the list of books in one place, and then had to match that to the actual books somewhere else. And I can read them via calibre if I want to, or get them onto my ereaders.
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