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DaltonSt, many thanks for this plugin, and for the Extract RIS Citations (my comment is mainly about this last one, since the thread for it is closed on mobileread). My case is as follows: I’m trying to import metadata records from Zotero into Calibre – metadata only, I don’t care about file attachments, since I don’t have any such attachments in Zotero. I’ve tried importing a CSV via ZMI for this task, which works great, except it leaves out significant Zotero fields (or fields I’m interested in), like “Abstract”. I then tried importing a RIS file via Extract RIS Citations, which has the advantage of importing all RIS tags, including the Abstract (AB) one, – BUT, the problem is that Extract RIS Citations only works with RIS files that contain one single record/citation. My RIS files exported from Zotero contain several records/citations per file, and your plugin only extracts the first record in the file. Is it possible for you to code the Extract RIS Citations to handle such multi-record RIS files, in order to extract all records/citations in a RIS file, not just the first one? Thanks.
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A single RIS file may include many unrelated sets of RIS Tags. To add a single new RIS "book" into Calibre, only the very first Set of RIS Tags is used to perform the update of the RIS file type.
If you want multiple books added from a single RIS File, simply break the long file into multiple pieces of one (1) set of RIS Tags per piece. Then, drag-and-drop each "piece" separately onto the Calibre GUI to create a new "book" from that piece, including the metadata extracted from the RIS Tags per your configuration.
The RIS Specification allows only one (1) Citation per set of RIS Tags.
The ZMI plugin was not designed to import Citations, but only a .pdf file along with its Metadata from Zotero. Zotero is for Citations. Calibre is for "books" (defined very loosely).
Perhaps Zotero has a standard (or plugin) function to create a new blank .pdf file containing all of the Zotero Metadata for a particular Item. You could then export that to a .CSV file, and import it into Calibre using ZMI. The citations would be in the text of the .pdf file just referenced.
DaltonST