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hakan42 · 08-13-2009, 03:10 PM

Hi,

I bought about 100 ebooks from readersplant.de, at that time, they were offering the downloads in four formats, PDF, HTML, PDB and TXT.

I would like to keep each book in all four formats, but if I add the whole directory of books to calibre, each file is a new book in my database.

Is there a way to "merge" those books later? I would avoid to repeteadly clicking "add alternative format" on each ebook, since I would have to do that about 300 times (one main format, three alternatives, about 100 ebooks).

At this time, my library (outside of calibre) is organised like

<series title>
\
PDF
HTML
PDB
TXT

and within each of those four directories, all the books of that series, in the appropiate format.

Regards,
Hakan

08-13-2009, 03:10 PM	#1
hakan42 Zealot Posts: 136 Karma: 60 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Munich, Germany Device: Nook Classic rooted; Galaxy S IV with Aldiko, other older devices	mass-importing ebooks in multiple formats? Hi, I bought about 100 ebooks from readersplant.de, at that time, they were offering the downloads in four formats, PDF, HTML, PDB and TXT. I would like to keep each book in all four formats, but if I add the whole directory of books to calibre, each file is a new book in my database. Is there a way to "merge" those books later? I would avoid to repeteadly clicking "add alternative format" on each ebook, since I would have to do that about 300 times (one main format, three alternatives, about 100 ebooks). At this time, my library (outside of calibre) is organised like <series title> \ PDF HTML PDB TXT and within each of those four directories, all the books of that series, in the appropiate format. Regards, Hakan