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Statch · 08-21-2009, 09:35 AM

I really apologize if the answer to this is already somewhere on the forum but I couldn't find it by searching. I have a Librarything.com account and I want to add my ebooks to it, but that's a painful process to do manually. (I have over 800 ebooks.) Since I already have all my ebooks in Calibre, is there a way to export my Calibre database as a .csv file, or perhaps some even easier way to get the information into Librarything?

I found a help ticket from a while back asking the same thing, and the answer was to use 'calibredb list --help' to export the database, but I don't see .csv as one of the options for --output-format.

On a related topic, does anyone else have trouble with ISBNs for ebooks? When I add an ebooks to the Calibre library, it usually shows up with an ISBN, but I can rarely get info from ISBN.db using that ISBN, so I almost always end up choosing an ISBN from a print version, just to get the description of the book into Calibre. So of course if I am able to upload my books into Librarything, they're all going to have ISBNs for print books. That doesn't really matter to me (I'm not a librarian), but I imagine it does to other people so someone may have already figured this out?

08-21-2009, 09:35 AM	#1
Statch Connoisseur Posts: 96 Karma: 2084 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Georgia, USA Device: Kindle PW2, Samsung Galaxy 3, Kindle Fire HD	Exporting Calibre database for use with Librarything? I really apologize if the answer to this is already somewhere on the forum but I couldn't find it by searching. I have a Librarything.com account and I want to add my ebooks to it, but that's a painful process to do manually. (I have over 800 ebooks.) Since I already have all my ebooks in Calibre, is there a way to export my Calibre database as a .csv file, or perhaps some even easier way to get the information into Librarything? I found a help ticket from a while back asking the same thing, and the answer was to use 'calibredb list --help' to export the database, but I don't see .csv as one of the options for --output-format. On a related topic, does anyone else have trouble with ISBNs for ebooks? When I add an ebooks to the Calibre library, it usually shows up with an ISBN, but I can rarely get info from ISBN.db using that ISBN, so I almost always end up choosing an ISBN from a print version, just to get the description of the book into Calibre. So of course if I am able to upload my books into Librarything, they're all going to have ISBNs for print books. That doesn't really matter to me (I'm not a librarian), but I imagine it does to other people so someone may have already figured this out?