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veloopity · 08-15-2024, 03:56 PM

Still using an old Kobo Glo here, because it works good enough.
One thing: I recently imported lots of ePub books from OceanofPDF and find that the internal database entries for these books contain numerous mistakes, for instance, author names aren't normalized - the same author name appears in several varieties which makes the 'authors' list pretty much unusable.
I could edit each book entry manually maybe but I wonder if there is some software out there that I could use to correct the database entries. I used to work as a database programmer so my natural impulse would be to somehow extract the database on the Kobo Glo, import it into a PC based database management system, normalie the entries, and transfer it back.
Any chance of doing that?

08-15-2024, 03:56 PM	#1
veloopity Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2013 Device: Kobo Glo	Kobo Glo database hack? Still using an old Kobo Glo here, because it works good enough. One thing: I recently imported lots of ePub books from OceanofPDF and find that the internal database entries for these books contain numerous mistakes, for instance, author names aren't normalized - the same author name appears in several varieties which makes the 'authors' list pretty much unusable. I could edit each book entry manually maybe but I wonder if there is some software out there that I could use to correct the database entries. I used to work as a database programmer so my natural impulse would be to somehow extract the database on the Kobo Glo, import it into a PC based database management system, normalie the entries, and transfer it back. Any chance of doing that?