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Pquemis · 09-25-2025, 06:28 PM

I have a folder with books organized like this:

Library/
├─ A/
│ ├─ Author 1/
│ │ ├─ Series 1/
│ │ │ ├─ Book 1/
│ │ │ │ ├─ Book 1.epub
│ │ │ │ └─ Book 1.mobi
│ │ │ └─ Book 2/
│ │ │ ├─ Book 2.epub
│ │ │ └─ Book 2.pdf

I would like to import all these books into Calibre and automatically extract the following metadata from the folder names:

Author → from the “Author” folder

Series → from the “Series” folder

Title → from the “Book” folder

Is there a way to set up Calibre so that it reads the folder structure and fills in the metadata automatically during import?

Thanks in advance for your help!

09-25-2025, 06:28 PM	#1
Pquemis Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2025 Device: none	Import books from folder structure and extract metadata automatically I have a folder with books organized like this: Library/ ├─ A/ │ ├─ Author 1/ │ │ ├─ Series 1/ │ │ │ ├─ Book 1/ │ │ │ │ ├─ Book 1.epub │ │ │ │ └─ Book 1.mobi │ │ │ └─ Book 2/ │ │ │ ├─ Book 2.epub │ │ │ └─ Book 2.pdf I would like to import all these books into Calibre and automatically extract the following metadata from the folder names: Author → from the “Author” folder Series → from the “Series” folder Title → from the “Book” folder Is there a way to set up Calibre so that it reads the folder structure and fills in the metadata automatically during import? Thanks in advance for your help!